tomli-w
A lil' TOML writer (counterpart to https://github.com/hukkin/tomli) (by hukkin)
pytoml
A TOML-0.4.0 parser/writer for Python. (by avakar)
| tomli-w | pytoml | |
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| 1 | 3 | |
| 77 | 129 | |
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| 1.6 | 10.0 | |
| 5 days ago | almost 5 years ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
tomli-w
Posts with mentions or reviews of tomli-w.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-14.
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Comparison of Python TOML parser libraries
tomli, then, seems to be where the Python community in general is coalescing for a "standard" TOML parser. tomli is read-only. For write functionality there is the companion library tomli-w.
pytoml
Posts with mentions or reviews of pytoml.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-21.
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TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language
Funny thing: TOML author/inventor calls it a mistake:
> TOML is a bad file format. It looks good at first glance, and for really really trivial things it is probably good. But once I started using it and the configuration schema became more complex, I found the syntax ugly and hard to read.
> I personally abandoned TOML and as such, I'm not planning on adding any new features
https://github.com/avakar/pytoml/issues/15#issuecomment-2177...
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Comparison of Python TOML parser libraries
pytoml Abandoned by the creator for eminently sensible reasons (interesting read too... https://github.com/avakar/pytoml/issues/15) But let's not get into an argument over whether a shiny new fashion in config formats is in fact doing anything better than the previous fashions in config management...