python-poetry / python-poetry/tomlkit
table escapes its parent
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Description
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import tomlkit
doc = tomlkit.loads("""
[t]
a.b = 1
""")
doc["t"]["a"]["c"] = {}
output = tomlkit.dumps(doc)
print(output)
result
[t]
a.b = 1
[a.c]
in which [a.c] is not a child of t as it should be
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Research direction
Start by running the Python reproducer using tomlkit.loads and tomlkit.dumps, then trace how the parsed table and nested assignment are serialized. Done means the output places the generated [a.c] table under [t], rather than emitting [a.c] at the document root.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
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- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
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