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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def as_list(self, decode=False):
 """ Return a list containing all the items in the list. """

        items = self.database.lrange(self.key, 0, -1)
        return [_decode(item) for item in items] if decode else items