我不同意任何解决办法，因为他们太宽容了。在解析字符串时，这通常不是您想要的结果。

这里是我使用的解决方案:

def to_bool(bool_str):
    """Parse the string and return the boolean value encoded or raise an exception"""
    if isinstance(bool_str, basestring) and bool_str: 
        if bool_str.lower() in ['true', 't', '1']: return True
        elif bool_str.lower() in ['false', 'f', '0']: return False

    #if here we couldn't parse it
    raise ValueError("%s is no recognized as a boolean value" % bool_str)

结果是:

>>> [to_bool(v) for v in ['true','t','1','F','FALSE','0']]
[True, True, True, False, False, False]
>>> to_bool("")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 8, in to_bool
ValueError: '' is no recognized as a boolean value

澄清一下，因为我的回答似乎冒犯了某人:

关键在于，您不希望只测试一个值，并假设另一个值。我不认为你总是想把所有东西都映射到未解析的值。这会产生容易出错的代码。

如果你知道你想要什么，就把它编码进去。

转换为bool类型的通常规则是，一些特殊的字面量(False, 0, 0.0，()，[]，{})为假，然后其他的都为真，所以我推荐如下:

def boolify(val):
    if (isinstance(val, basestring) and bool(val)):
        return not val in ('False', '0', '0.0')
    else:
        return bool(val)

这是我的版本。它同时检查正值和负值列表，对于未知值引发异常。它不接收字符串，但任何类型都可以。

def to_bool(value):
    """
       Converts 'something' to boolean. Raises exception for invalid formats
           Possible True  values: 1, True, "1", "TRue", "yes", "y", "t"
           Possible False values: 0, False, None, [], {}, "", "0", "faLse", "no", "n", "f", 0.0, ...
    """
    if str(value).lower() in ("yes", "y", "true",  "t", "1"): return True
    if str(value).lower() in ("no",  "n", "false", "f", "0", "0.0", "", "none", "[]", "{}"): return False
    raise Exception('Invalid value for boolean conversion: ' + str(value))

示例:

>>> to_bool(True)
True
>>> to_bool("tRUe")
True
>>> to_bool("1")
True
>>> to_bool(1)
True
>>> to_bool(2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 9, in to_bool
Exception: Invalid value for boolean conversion: 2
>>> to_bool([])
False
>>> to_bool({})
False
>>> to_bool(None)
False
>>> to_bool("Wasssaaaaa")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 9, in to_bool
Exception: Invalid value for boolean conversion: Wasssaaaaa
>>>

这个答案使用了Django Rest Framework (DRF) 3.14中的代码。

你可以:

from rest_framework.fields import BooleanField
f = BooleanField(allow_null=True)
test_values = [ True, "True", "1", 1, -1, 1.0, "true", "t", "on",
         None, "null", "NULL",
         False, "False", "0", 0, "false", "f", 0.0, "off" ]
for item in test_values:
    r = f.to_internal_value(item)
    print(r)
   
# a shorter version
from rest_framework.fields import BooleanField
test_values = [ True, "True", "1", 1, -1, 1.0, "true", "t", "on",
         None, "null", "NULL",
         False, "False", "0", 0, "false", "f", 0.0, "off" ]
for item in test_values:
    print(BooleanField(allow_null=True).to_internal_value(item))

或者您可以调整BooleanField的代码，使其适合您的需要。下面是DRF 3.x中类BooleanField的实际代码

# from rest_framework.fields 
# ...

class BooleanField(Field):
    default_error_messages = {
        'invalid': _('Must be a valid boolean.')
    }
    default_empty_html = False
    initial = False
    TRUE_VALUES = {
        't', 'T',
        'y', 'Y', 'yes', 'Yes', 'YES',
        'true', 'True', 'TRUE',
        'on', 'On', 'ON',
        '1', 1,
        True
    }
    FALSE_VALUES = {
        'f', 'F',
        'n', 'N', 'no', 'No', 'NO',
        'false', 'False', 'FALSE',
        'off', 'Off', 'OFF',
        '0', 0, 0.0,
        False
    }
    NULL_VALUES = {'null', 'Null', 'NULL', '', None}
    
    def to_internal_value(self, data):
        try:
            if data in self.TRUE_VALUES:
                return True
            elif data in self.FALSE_VALUES:
                return False
            elif data in self.NULL_VALUES and self.allow_null:
                return None
        except TypeError:  # Input is an unhashable type
            pass
        self.fail('invalid', input=data)
    
    def to_representation(self, value):
        if value in self.TRUE_VALUES:
            return True
        elif value in self.FALSE_VALUES:
            return False
        if value in self.NULL_VALUES and self.allow_null:
            return None
        return bool(value)

# ...

从Python 2.6开始，你可以使用ast.literal_eval:

>>> 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.

这似乎是可行的，只要你确定你的字符串将是“True”或“False”:

>>> ast.literal_eval("True")
True
>>> ast.literal_eval("False")
False
>>> ast.literal_eval("F")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
  File "/opt/Python-2.6.1/lib/python2.6/ast.py", line 68, in literal_eval
    return _convert(node_or_string)
  File "/opt/Python-2.6.1/lib/python2.6/ast.py", line 67, in _convert
    raise ValueError('malformed string')
ValueError: malformed string
>>> ast.literal_eval("'False'")
'False'

我通常不建议这样做，但它是完全内置的，可以根据您的需求来选择。

通过使用Python内置的eval()函数和.capitalize()方法，您可以将任何“true”/“false”字符串(不管初始大写)转换为true Python布尔值。

例如:

true_false = "trUE"
type(true_false)

# OUTPUT: <type 'str'>

true_false = eval(true_false.capitalize())
type(true_false)

# OUTPUT: <type 'bool'>