Feature request: allow to dump config to dict about python-decouple HOT 4 CLOSED

Sounds interesting implementing __iter__ or a items method for config.

The 1st would be easier, but the 2nd would be respect dict's api.

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Hi, @henriquebastos .
May be do it like so:

class RepositoryIni:
    ...
    def items(self):
        return self.parser.items(self.SECTION)


class AutoConfig:
    ...
    to_dict(self):
        items = self.repostiory.items()
        return {k.upper(): v for k,v in items}

Could it work?

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I tried to play with your PR, however you're only testing against string values.

What would happen in the case of a bool?

For exemple:

assert dict(config.items())['KeyTrue'] == 'True'

Would you expect the above value to be the string 'True' or the boolean value True?

The former is not possible without calling config.

This makes this feature a no go.

If you need to retrieve many keys as a dict you can simply do:

d = {k: config(k) for k in ('Key1', 'Key2', 'Key3', 'KeyN')}

If you have any other consideration, I'll be happy to read. For now I'm closing the issue.

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