hukkin/tomli-w

NOTICE: Upcoming style change -- no more AoTs

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hukkin commented

When toml-lang/toml#904 goes into a TOML spec release I plan to tweak Tomli-W's formatting by reverting the changes that make it write "arrays of tables", starting with PR #15. Instead I plan to write "multi line inline tables" when there is a table within an array.

This should:

  • simplify the code
  • reduce inspection of input data, increasing performance
  • result in style that is easier to understand
  • avoid non-uniform input reported here #35 (comment)
hukkin commented

Note to self: Consider #25 for both arrays and inline tables together with this change.

hukkin commented

Another note to self: This change shouldn't be made in this package until:

  • tomllib standard library implements a TOML spec that includes "multi line inline tables"
  • EOL date of last Python version that doesn't support the new spec

So very far in the future.