tomlkit does not serialize some empty arrays and dictionaries
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Assessment
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- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 58/100
Research direction
Start by running the provided Python reproduction through tomlkit.loads and tomlkit.dumps, then trace the serialization path used for empty dictionaries and arrays. Done means the resulting TOML preserves those empty structures rather than producing only two newlines; the issue does not name a file or test to run.
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Description
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import tomlkit
doc = tomlkit.loads("""
x.y.z = 1
[[a]]
x = 1
""")
doc["a"].pop()
doc["x"]["y"].pop("z")
print(f"{doc=}")
rendered = tomlkit.dumps(doc)
print(f"{rendered=}")
result
doc={'x': {'y': {}}, 'a': []}
rendered='\n\n'
Two newlines is not a good TOML representation of that dictionary
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