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id: tomlkit
version: "0.15.1"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# tomlkit — Style preserving TOML library

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install tomlkit
uv add tomlkit
poetry add tomlkit

## Description

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# TOML Kit - Style-preserving TOML library for Python

TOML Kit is a **1.1.0-compliant** [TOML](https://toml.io/) library.

It includes a parser that preserves all comments, indentations, whitespace and internal element ordering,
and makes them accessible and editable via an intuitive API.

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## AI interpretation — verify before relying

tomlkit parses and edits TOML 1.1.0 files while preserving comments, whitespace, indentation, and element order, then serializes them back with formatting intact.

Verdict: tomlkit is a well-maintained, dependency-free TOML library ideal for applications that need to read and modify TOML files without losing formatting. No known vulnerabilities, permissive MIT license, and broad Python version support make it a safe, production-ready choice.

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