Did you know that the below code returns True?

>>> bool("False")
 True

That's because False is a string and boolean of non-empty string is True. There are workarounds:

1- s == 'True'

Do not use this piece of code if you don't know what you're doing. Misusing this technic puts a mess in your code! Be cautious.

2- The other more elegant way is to use json library like below:

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

NOTE: you need to make it lower case in order to turn the string into a boolean value.

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