Converting from a string to boolean in Python?

Question

Does anyone know how to do the conversion from a string to a boolean in Python?

The reason I asked this is because I learned int("string"), from here. I tried bool("string") but always got True.

>>> bool("False") 

True

Answer 1

You can use the following way to get the desired output:-

def str2bool(v):

   return str(v).lower() in ("yes", "true", "t", "1")

str2bool("no")

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