On 3/30/2022 11:02 AM, Adrian Torres Justo wrote:
Fair enough, thanks for the explanation
...
There are a lot of ways to interpret "convert to bool" - should
"yes" and "no" be converted? What about "1" and "0"? Or "001", or
"-1"? What should happen to unrecognised values? What if the
environment variable doesn't exist? It's not at all obvious to me
that strtobool is the definitive way of doing this (quite apart
from the fact that distutils will be getting removed from the
stdlib in Python 3.12 - see https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/).
What is so special about *this particular way* that it's worth
including in the stdlib? Particularly when it's so easy to write
for yourself.
Also: what's so special about bool? Why not int, float, datetime, etc?
Eric
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