<s>[INST] Converting from a string to boolean in Python? Does anyone know how to do convert from a string to a boolean in Python? I found this link. But it doesn't look like a proper way to do it.  I.e. using a built in functionality, etc.
EDIT: The reason I asked this is because I learned int("string"), from here. I tried bool ("string") but always got True.
 [/INST] Really, you just compare the string to whatever you expect to accept as representing true, so you can do this:
s == 'True'

Or to checks against a whole bunch of values:
s in ['true', '1', 't', 'y', 'yes', 'yeah', 'yup', 'certainly', 'uh-huh']

Be cautious when using the following:
>>> bool("foo")
True
>>> bool("")
False

Empty strings evaluate to False, but everything else evaluates to True. So this should not be used for any kind of parsing purposes.
 </s>