candle.helper_utils.str2bool

candle.helper_utils.str2bool(v)

This is taken from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15008758/parsing-boolean-values-with- argparse Because type=bool is not interpreted as a bool and action=’store_true’ cannot be undone.

Parameters:

v (string) – String to interpret

Returns:

Boolean value. It raises and exception if the provided string cannot be interpreted as a boolean type.

• Strings recognized as boolean True : ‘yes’, ‘true’, ‘t’, ‘y’, ‘1’ and uppercase versions (where applicable).

• Strings recognized as boolean False : ‘no’, ‘false’, ‘f’, ‘n’, ‘0’ and uppercase versions (where applicable).

Return type:

boolean