Can we have a "non formatted" postcode for pt_BR localization?

• Faker version: 3.0.0
• OS: Windows 10 pro (x64)

I’m using Faker to generate postcode using the pt_BR localization. The example on address section shows a numeric sequence containing 8 numbers and that was what I expect.

fake.postcode()
# '35285968'

Anyway, I’m getting some problems in my tests because the output of this function sometimes returns a formatted postcode. Example:

fake.postcode()
# '35285968'    -- cool :D

fake.postcode()
# '35285-968'    -- sad :(

Expected behavior

I would like to generate postcode exactly hows the documentation says, just numbers, without any formatting. As a temporary solution, I’m using a replace to remove any - present, but I would like to have a cleaner solution using just Faker. Maybe this “formatted” version can be specified by an argument in the postcode function.

Actual behavior

Getting a non deterministic postcode, I don’t know which type of postalcode format I will get.

[malefice]

I understand where @reebr might be coming from, because in some systems, postcodes like this are only ever stored in “raw” form, i.e. no dashes, whitespaces, and what-have-you that only serve as visual aids for humans. The visual aids might only be for presentation purposes, e.g. part of the GUI/physical forms to make them easy to fill out or formatted only when displayed to end users, so formatted postcodes can be out of scope for certain use cases.

Perhaps we can do something like this (with better variable names) for similar provider methods as @dunossauro suggested. This way, it will still be backward compatible, and there is an option to only generate the raw forms.

Class Provider:

    postcode_raw_templates = ( '########', )

    postcode_all_templates = postcode_raw_templates + ( '#####-###', )

    def postcode(self, formatted=True):
        templates = self.postcode_all_templates if formatted else self.postcode_raw_templates 
        return self.bothify(self.random_element(templates)).upper()

[fcurella]

What’s the most common case use in Brazil? Do postcodes ever get printed without the hyphen?