| Data structure support |
+ |
TOML (Tom’s Obvious, Minimal Language) supports most
common including strings, integers, floats and dates,
but not references like :doc:`../yaml/index` does. |
| Standardisation |
++ |
TOML is a formal strongly typed standard. |
| Schema-IDL |
+- |
Partly with JSON Schema Everywhere |
| Language support |
++ |
TOML is a relatively new serialization format and
doesn’t have the same broad support as JSON, CSV or
XML for various programming languages. |
| Human readability |
++ |
One of TOML’s primary goals was to be very easy to
read. |
| Speed |
+- |
TOML can be processed at medium speed. |
| File size |
- |
Only :doc:`../xml-html/index` is less compact. |
.. tab:: Python < 3.11
You need the Python package `toml <https://pypi.org/project/toml/>`_ to
convert TOML files into Python :doc:`python-basics:types/dicts`. You can
then load TOML files, for example with:
import toml
config = toml.load("pyproject.toml").. seealso::
* `Home <https://toml.io/en/>`_
* `GitHub <https://github.com/toml-lang/toml>`_
* `Wiki <https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/wiki>`_
* `What is wrong with TOML?
<https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why-not/toml/>`_
* `An INI critique of TOML
<https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique-of-TOML>`_
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