updating a table captures too many keys
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100
Research direction
Start by running the Python reproduction in the issue and inspect how assigning a mapping to doc["a"]["b"] affects table structure and serialization. Trace the relevant table-update and dump paths; done means tomlkit emits [a.b] with x = 9 while a.c and a.d remain sibling tables, with regression coverage for this case.
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Description
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import tomlkit
doc = tomlkit.loads("a.b = 1\na.c = 2\na.d = 3\n")
doc["a"]["b"] = {"x": 9}
output = tomlkit.dumps(doc)
print(output)
result
[a.b]
x = 9
a.c = 2
a.d = 3
in which a.c and a.d have become children of the [a.b] table
similar to #542, #543, but not fixed by PRs currently open for those so should be distinct.
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