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table escapes its parent

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

Research direction

Start by running the Python reproducer using tomlkit.loads and tomlkit.dumps, then trace how the parsed table and nested assignment are serialized. Done means the output places the generated [a.c] table under [t], rather than emitting [a.c] at the document root.

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Description

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import tomlkit

doc = tomlkit.loads("""
[t]
a.b = 1
""")
doc["t"]["a"]["c"] = {}

output = tomlkit.dumps(doc)

print(output)

result

[t]
a.b = 1

[a.c]

in which [a.c] is not a child of t as it should be

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