[Level 1] How to evaluate the string to boolean?

If you want to evaluate the string you could create a function like below.

#!/bin/env python
def toBoolean(str):
    return if str in ['True', '1']

print toBoolean('True')
print toBoolean('False')

But you could have an easier way to implement with native module called "ast.literal_eval()"
e.g.

>>> import ast
>>> help(ast.literal_eval)
Help on function literal_eval in module ast:

literal_eval(node_or_string)
    Safely evaluate an expression node or a string containing a Python
    expression.  The string or node provided may only consist of the following
    Python literal structures: strings, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, booleans,
    and None.
>>> ast.literal_eval('False')
False
>>> ast.literal_eval('True')
True
>>> ast.literal_eval('1')
1
>>> ast.literal_eval('0')
0

Wish this helps. regards, Stanley Huang