[New-bugs-announce] [issue27721] strtobool returns 0 and 1 rather than False and True

[Joseph Bane]

New submission from Joseph Bane:

The distutils strtobool function returns 0 or 1 rather than the native boolean type True or False values:

https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/3.5/Lib/distutils/util.py#l304

Please see the attached patch for updates to this function. I have included updates to use a f-string in the raise and casefold instead of lower.

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components: Distutils
files: patch.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 272263
nosy: Joseph Bane, dstufft, eric.araujo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: strtobool returns 0 and 1 rather than False and True
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44060/patch.diff

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