Keys method with (dotted=True) gives multiplication of the same key
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Description
Bug of keys in Box:
When you use `keys()` method in a "dotted" situation, meaning we have a tree of keys in a Box, and you want to get the keys of a given node, one can notice that we get back a list of keys that are multiplicated if the value of a key is a list. (and the multiplication is by the lengh of the list)
For example:
```
b = Box({
"Animals" : {"Land_animals" : ["Lion", "Elephant"], "Sea_animals" : ["Dolphin", "Shark"]},
"Trees" : ["Palm_tree", "Coconut_tree"]
}, box_dots = True)
```
When you are using `keys = b.keys(dotted = True)` you get -
```
['Animals.Land_animals[0]',
'Animals.Land_animals[1]',
'Animals.Sea_animals[0]',
'Animals.Sea_animals[1]',
'Trees[0]',
'Trees[1]']
```
and we can see the multiple occurances of the keys (with indexes of their number of values), and the method `len(keys)` would have wrong answer - 6 instead of 3.
The output which I thought would be right is: `['Animals.Land_animals', 'Animals.Sea_animals', 'Trees']`
A workaround is to add to the box this:
`box_intact_types = (tuple,list)`
so that lists wouldn't be converted, and than it works fine.
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