We've used a lot of boolean environment variables in a recent project I've
been working on, this led us to create a wrapper to os.getenv that
essentially converts the result to a boolean using distutils.util.strtobool
if an optional kwarg to our wrapper is set to True.
Would it be far-fetched to have os.getenv incorporate this functionality?
We already have the building blocks (strtobool and getenv), and the
signature change would be minimal and backwards-compatible:
def getenv(key, default=None, to_bool=False):
...
The implementation would be trivial too.
Let me know what you think, thanks!
Adrian
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