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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the example through tomlkit.parse and compare the document view with direct retrieval and assignment for c and d. Trace the parser's handling of the dotted key and the later [a.b] table, then verify that both values appear in the document and remain independently mutable.

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Description

The following is valid however tomlkit isn't able to properly handle the dual scopes:

a.b.c = 12

[a.b]
d = 34
import tomlkit

doc = tomlkit.parse("""\
a.b.c = 12

[a.b]
d = 34
""")

# looking at the doc shows incomplete data
doc  # {'a': {'b': {'d': 34}}}

# retrieving data works
doc['a']['b']['c']  # 12

# modifying data fails
doc['a']['b']['c']  = 45
doc['a']['b']['c']  # 12

doc['a']['b']['d']  = 100
doc['a']['b']['d']  # 34
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