Support for dict as a cast argument about python-decouple HOT 4 CLOSED

Actually I totally agree. Thanks for dj-database-url, haven't heard of it. Actually the requested feature is totally unnecessary since you can already obtain the desired behaviour by simply passing the literal_eval function as the cast argument. I checked it out afterwards and didn't closed the issue... Sorry

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@henriquebastos he already implemented it here

To be honest, storing a database as a dict looks really strange and it makes it harder to read the contents of the variable. Imagine someone changing it in a .env file, it wouldn't be that easy. I feel this shouldn't be in decouple too.

You really should be using dj-database-url or multiple variables.

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Can you share your code strategy? I feel this shouldn't be inside decouple, but could be a helper dictionary cast function like Csv.

I have a personal preference for strategies like dj-database-url that converts an URL to a DATABASE dictionary. For quite some time I though about including it as a dependency. However this seems too specific for Django.

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