14.1. TOML About

14.1.1. SetUp

>>> import tomllib

14.1.2. From String

>>> data = """
... project = "myproject"
... version = "1.0.0"
... """
>>>
>>> data = tomllib.loads(data)
>>> data
{'project': 'myproject', 'version': '1.0.0'}

14.1.3. From File

project = "myproject"
version = "1.0.0"

>>> with open('/tmp/myfile.toml', mode='rb') as file:
...     data = tomllib.load(file)

14.1.4. Conversion Table

TOML's table is Python's dict
TOML's string is Python's str
TOML's integer is Python's int
TOML's float is Python's float
TOML's boolean is Python's bool
TOML's offset datetime is Python's datetime.datetime (tzinfo attribute set to an instance of datetime.timezone)
TOML's local datetime is Python's datetime.datetime (tzinfo attribute set to None)
TOML's local date is Python's datetime.date
TOML's local time is Python's datetime.time
TOML's array is Python's list

14.1.5. Example

[project]
name = "myproject"
version = "1.0.0"
requires-python = ">=3.13"
authors = [{name = "Alice", email = "alice@example.com"}]
readme = "README.md"
license = {file = "LICENSE"}
keywords = ["myproject", "myapp", "python", "django", "ninja"]
dependencies = [
    "django == 5.2.*",
    "django-ninja == 1.4.*"]