py2be

Simple Python library determining whether strings indicate truey or falsy values.

Introduction

to-be is a library providing facilities for determine whether the truthyness of strings. It implemented in several languages: py2be is the Python implementation.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Terminology
• Project Information
  • Where to get help
  • Contribution guidelines
  • Dependencies
    • Dev Dependencies
  • Related projects
  • License

Terminology

The term "truthy" is an unhelpfully overloaded term in the programming world, insofar as it is used to refer to the notion of "truthyness" - whether something can be deemed to be interpretable as truth - and also the true side of that interpretation. In this library, the former interpretation is used, leaving us with the following terms:

• "truthy" - whether something can be can be deemed to be interpretable as having truth;
• "falsey" - whether an object can be deemed to be interpretable as being false;
• "truey" - whether an object can be deemed to be interpretable as being true;

For example, consider the following Python program:

from py2be import (
	string_is_falsey,
	string_is_truey,
	string_is_truthy,
)

s1 = "no"
s2 = "True"
s3 = "orange"

# "no" is validly truthy, and is falsey
assert string_is_falsey(s1)
assert !string_is_truey(s1)
assert string_is_truthy(s1)

# "True" is validly truthy, and is truey
assert !string_is_falsey(s2)
assert string_is_truey(s2)
assert string_is_truthy(s2)

# "orange" is not validly truthy, and is neither falsey nor truey
assert !string_is_falsey(s3)
assert !string_is_truey(s3)
assert !string_is_truthy(s3)

Project Information

Where to get help

GitHub Page

Contribution guidelines

Defect reports, feature requests, and pull requests are welcome on https://github.com/synesissoftware/py2be.

Dependencies

py2be has no (non-development) dependencies.

Dev Dependencies

py2be has no (additional) development dependencies.

Related projects

• to-be (C);
• to_be.Ruby;
• to-be.Rust;

License

py2be is released under the 3-clause BSD license. See LICENSE for details.