Make sure a tool table is created in toml generation (#8638)

Co-authored-by: Pierre Sassoulas <[email protected]>

Author: DanielNoord

doc/exts/pylint_options.py

@@ -70,8 +70,10 @@ def _create_checker_section(
     checker_string += get_rst_title(f"``{checker.capitalize()}`` **Checker**", "-")
 
     toml_doc = tomlkit.document()
+    tool_table = tomlkit.table(is_super_table=True)
+    toml_doc.add(tomlkit.key("tool"), tool_table)
     pylint_tool_table = tomlkit.table(is_super_table=True)
-    toml_doc.add(tomlkit.key(["tool", "pylint"]), pylint_tool_table)
+    tool_table.add(tomlkit.key("pylint"), pylint_tool_table)
 
     checker_table = tomlkit.table()
 

doc/user_guide/configuration/all-options.rst

@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Standard Checkers
 """"""""""""
 *Minimum Python version to use for version dependent checks. Will default to the version used to run pylint.*
 
-**Default:**  ``(3, 10)``
+**Default:**  ``(3, 11)``
 
 
 --recursive
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ Standard Checkers
 
    confidence = ["HIGH", "CONTROL_FLOW", "INFERENCE", "INFERENCE_FAILURE", "UNDEFINED"]
 
-   disable = ["consider-using-augmented-assign"]
+   disable = ["raw-checker-failed", "bad-inline-option", "locally-disabled", "file-ignored", "suppressed-message", "useless-suppression", "deprecated-pragma", "use-symbolic-message-instead", "consider-using-augmented-assign"]
 
    enable = []
 
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ Standard Checkers
 
    persistent = true
 
-   py-version = [3, 10]
+   py-version = [3, 11]
 
    recursive = false
 

doc/whatsnew/fragments/8632.bugfix

@@ -303,8 +303,11 @@ def _generate_config_file(self, *, minimal: bool = False) -> str:
         stdout.
         """
         toml_doc = tomlkit.document()
+        tool_table = tomlkit.table(is_super_table=True)
+        toml_doc.add(tomlkit.key("tool"), tool_table)
+
         pylint_tool_table = tomlkit.table(is_super_table=True)
-        toml_doc.add(tomlkit.key(["tool", "pylint"]), pylint_tool_table)
+        tool_table.add(tomlkit.key("pylint"), pylint_tool_table)
 
         for group in sorted(
             self._arg_parser._action_groups,

pylint/config/arguments_manager.py

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ dependencies    = [
     "isort>=4.2.5,<6",
     "mccabe>=0.6,<0.8",
     "tomli>=1.1.0;python_version<'3.11'",
-    "tomlkit>=0.10.1,<=0.11.7",
+    "tomlkit>=0.10.1",
     "colorama>=0.4.5;sys_platform=='win32'",
     "typing-extensions>=3.10.0;python_version<'3.10'",
 ]