[Python-ideas] Allow os.getenv to optionally convert result to boolean

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