我必须这么做……所以，也许姗姗来迟——但有人可能会发现它很有用

def str_to_bool(input, default):
    """
    | Default | not_default_str | input   | result
    | T       |  "false"        | "true"  |  T
    | T       |  "false"        | "false" |  F
    | F       |  "true"         | "true"  |  T
    | F       |  "true"         | "false" |  F

    """
    if default:
        not_default_str = "false"
    else:
        not_default_str = "true"

    if input.lower() == not_default_str:
        return not default
    else:
        return default

def str2bool(str):
  if isinstance(str, basestring) and str.lower() in ['0','false','no']:
    return False
  else:
    return bool(str)

想法:检查你是否希望字符串被计算为False;否则bool()对于任何非空字符串返回True。

您可能已经有了一个解决方案，但对于其他人来说，他们正在寻找一种方法，将值转换为布尔值，使用“标准”假值，包括None，[]，{}和“”，除了false, no和0。

def toBoolean( val ):
    """ 
    Get the boolean value of the provided input.

        If the value is a boolean return the value.
        Otherwise check to see if the value is in 
        ["false", "f", "no", "n", "none", "0", "[]", "{}", "" ]
        and returns True if value is not in the list
    """

    if val is True or val is False:
        return val

    falseItems = ["false", "f", "no", "n", "none", "0", "[]", "{}", "" ]

    return not str( val ).strip().lower() in falseItems

这是我的版本。它同时检查正值和负值列表，对于未知值引发异常。它不接收字符串，但任何类型都可以。

def to_bool(value):
    """
       Converts 'something' to boolean. Raises exception for invalid formats
           Possible True  values: 1, True, "1", "TRue", "yes", "y", "t"
           Possible False values: 0, False, None, [], {}, "", "0", "faLse", "no", "n", "f", 0.0, ...
    """
    if str(value).lower() in ("yes", "y", "true",  "t", "1"): return True
    if str(value).lower() in ("no",  "n", "false", "f", "0", "0.0", "", "none", "[]", "{}"): return False
    raise Exception('Invalid value for boolean conversion: ' + str(value))

示例:

>>> to_bool(True)
True
>>> to_bool("tRUe")
True
>>> to_bool("1")
True
>>> to_bool(1)
True
>>> to_bool(2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 9, in to_bool
Exception: Invalid value for boolean conversion: 2
>>> to_bool([])
False
>>> to_bool({})
False
>>> to_bool(None)
False
>>> to_bool("Wasssaaaaa")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 9, in to_bool
Exception: Invalid value for boolean conversion: Wasssaaaaa
>>>

我使用

# function
def to_bool(x):
    return x in ("True", "true", True)

# test cases
[[x, to_bool(x)] for x in [True, "True", "true", False, "False", "false", None, 1, 0, -1, 123]]
"""
Result:
[[True, True],
 ['True', True],
 ['true', True],
 [False, False],
 ['False', False],
 ['false', False],
 [None, False],
 [1, True],
 [0, False],
 [-1, False],
 [123, False]]
"""

JSON解析器在将字符串转换为合理的python类型时也很有用。

>>> import json
>>> json.loads("false".lower())
False
>>> json.loads("True".lower())
True