Passing in parameter to .get() results in metadata

[sdxiang]

I was using pyalex to search Authors and wanted to report some unexpected behavior: Passing in any non-empty string, list, dict, or nonzero int into .get() in the context of Authors.search().get() results in the "meta" field being returned along with the search results. I'm not sure if this also happens with methods other than search().

[thomaswolgast]

See: https://github.com/J535D165/pyalex/blob/main/pyalex/api.py#L348.

The observed behavior happens because you set return_meta to True by passing parameters that are interpreted as True. So this is not really unexpected behavior.