non-recursive dict()

[psippola]

BaseModel.dict() seems to be always recursive because to_dict=True in arguments of _iter. Could to_dict=True be added to the parameters of dict() to optionally do a non-recursive dict conversion?

        return dict(
            self._iter(
                to_dict=True,        # -> to_dict=to_dict
                by_alias=by_alias,
                include=include,
                exclude=exclude,
                exclude_unset=exclude_unset,
                exclude_defaults=exclude_defaults,
                exclude_none=exclude_none,
            )
        )

[samuelcolvin]

better to use _iter directly, see #1001 for a discussion on why it's currently private.