From 817dc098efd0c2cba674cee32950fc5626e12881 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Ward Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 01:25:06 +0000 Subject: Added 'strtobool()' function: convert strings like "yes", "1", "no", "0", etc. to true/false. --- Lib/distutils/util.py | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py index 3f06807..367985a 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/util.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py @@ -273,3 +273,18 @@ def execute (func, args, msg=None, verbose=0, dry_run=0): apply(func, args) # execute() + + +def strtobool (val): + """Convert a string representation of truth to true (1) or false (0). + True values are 'y', 'yes', 't', 'true', 'on', and '1'; false values + are 'n', 'no', 'f', 'false', 'off', and '0'. Raises ValueError if + 'val' is anything else. + """ + val = string.lower(val) + if val in ('y', 'yes', 't', 'true', 'on', '1'): + return 1 + elif val in ('n', 'no', 'f', 'false', 'off', '0'): + return 0 + else: + raise ValueError, "invalid truth value %s" % `val` -- cgit v0.12