From 4d6130b8e7c9daadcc1d5848a01055b45fd23a4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Bernhard W. Radermacher"
 <31952794+bradermacher@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 10:25:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] issue 285

in dump_inline_table change the isinstance check to look for collections.abc.Mapping, not for dict.

This enables UserDict and other classes that derive from collections.abc.Mapping, in addition to dict.

additional change - missed two checks.
---
 toml/encoder.py | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/toml/encoder.py b/toml/encoder.py
index bf17a72..e5f81aa 100644
--- a/toml/encoder.py
+++ b/toml/encoder.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import collections
 import datetime
 import re
 import sys
@@ -161,7 +162,7 @@ def dump_inline_table(self, section):
         https://github.com/toml-lang/toml#user-content-inline-table
         """
         retval = ""
-        if isinstance(section, dict):
+        if isinstance(section, collections.abc.Mapping):
             val_list = []
             for k, v in section.items():
                 val = self.dump_inline_table(v)
@@ -190,11 +191,11 @@ def dump_sections(self, o, sup):
             qsection = section
             if not re.match(r'^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$', section):
                 qsection = _dump_str(section)
-            if not isinstance(o[section], dict):
+            if not isinstance(o[section], collections.abc.Mapping):
                 arrayoftables = False
                 if isinstance(o[section], list):
                     for a in o[section]:
-                        if isinstance(a, dict):
+                        if isinstance(a, collections.abc.Mapping):
                             arrayoftables = True
                 if arrayoftables:
                     for a in o[section]: