Merged in aconrad/pastedeploy (pull request #1)

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/paste/deploy/converters.py b/paste/deploy/converters.py
index f37d267..c9d87de 100644
--- a/paste/deploy/converters.py
+++ b/paste/deploy/converters.py
@@ -3,12 +3,16 @@
 from paste.deploy.compat import basestring
 
 
+truthy = frozenset(['true', 'yes', 'on', 'y', 't', '1'])
+falsy = frozenset(['false', 'no', 'off', 'n', 'f', '0'])
+
+
 def asbool(obj):
     if isinstance(obj, basestring):
         obj = obj.strip().lower()
-        if obj in ['true', 'yes', 'on', 'y', 't', '1']:
+        if obj in truthy:
             return True
-        elif obj in ['false', 'no', 'off', 'n', 'f', '0']:
+        elif obj in falsy:
             return False
         else:
             raise ValueError("String is not true/false: %r" % obj)
diff --git a/tests/test_converters.py b/tests/test_converters.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5361310
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_converters.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+def test_asbool_truthy():
+    from paste.deploy.converters import asbool
+    assert asbool('true')
+    assert asbool('yes')
+    assert asbool('on')
+    assert asbool('y')
+    assert asbool('t')
+    assert asbool('1')
+
+def test_asbool_falsy():
+    from paste.deploy.converters import asbool
+    assert not asbool('false')
+    assert not asbool('no')
+    assert not asbool('off')
+    assert not asbool('n')
+    assert not asbool('f')
+    assert not asbool('0')