Added in version 3.11.
Source code: Lib/tomllib
This module provides an interface for parsing TOML 1.0.0 (Tom’s Obvious Minimal Language, https://toml.io). This module does not support writing TOML.
See also
The Tomli-W package is a TOML writer that can be used in conjunction with this module, providing a write API familiar to users of the standard library marshal and pickle modules.
See also
The TOML Kit package is a style-preserving TOML library with both read and write capability. It is a recommended replacement for this module for editing already existing TOML files.
This module defines the following functions:
tomllib.load(fp, /, *, parse_float=float) Read a TOML file. The first argument should be a readable and binary file object. Return a dict. Convert TOML types to Python using this conversion table.
parse_float will be called with the string of every TOML float to be decoded. By default, this is equivalent to float(num_str). This can be used to use another datatype or parser for TOML floats (e.g. decimal.Decimal). The callable must not return a dict or a list, else a ValueError is raised.
A TOMLDecodeError will be raised on an invalid TOML document.
tomllib.loads(s, /, *, parse_float=float) Load TOML from a str object. Return a dict. Convert TOML types to Python using this conversion table. The parse_float argument has the same meaning as in load().
A TOMLDecodeError will be raised on an invalid TOML document.
The following exceptions are available:
exception tomllib.TOMLDecodeError(msg, doc, pos) Subclass of ValueError with the following additional attributes:
msg The unformatted error message.
doc The TOML document being parsed.
pos The index of doc where parsing failed.
lineno The line corresponding to pos.
colno The column corresponding to pos.
Changed in version 3.14: Added the msg, doc and pos parameters. Added the msg, doc, pos, lineno and colno attributes.
Deprecated since version 3.14: Passing free-form positional arguments is deprecated.
Parsing a TOML file:
import tomllib
with open("pyproject.toml", "rb") as f:
data = tomllib.load(f)
Parsing a TOML string:
import tomllib toml_str = """ python-version = "3.11.0" python-implementation = "CPython" """ data = tomllib.loads(toml_str)
TOML | Python |
|---|---|
TOML document | dict |
string | str |
integer | int |
float | float (configurable with parse_float) |
boolean | bool |
offset date-time | datetime.datetime ( |
local date-time | datetime.datetime ( |
local date | datetime.date |
local time | datetime.time |
array | list |
table | dict |
inline table | dict |
array of tables | list of dicts |
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