sort-of-pastebin/snapbin/utils.py

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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 = val.lower()
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 %r" % (val,))