def METHOD_NAME(obj: t.Any) -> bool:
    """
    Shamelessly stolen from beaker.converters
    # (c) 2005 Ian Bicking and contributors; written for Paste (http://pythonpaste.org)
    # Licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
    """
    if isinstance(obj, string_types):
        obj = obj.strip().lower()
        if obj in ["true", "yes", "on", "y", "t", "1"]:
            return True
        elif obj in ["false", "no", "off", "n", "f", "0"]:
            return False
        else:
            raise ValueError("String is not true/false: %r" % obj)
    return bool(obj)