From 0b6aa25dd44aefde4e1fa4a6c97a07f9f38a00e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean-Francois Dockes <jf@dockes.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 19:06:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Python conftree: valToBool method

---
 src/python/recoll/recoll/conftree.py | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/python/recoll/recoll/conftree.py b/src/python/recoll/recoll/conftree.py
index 94cca934..0ad53eec 100644
--- a/src/python/recoll/recoll/conftree.py
+++ b/src/python/recoll/recoll/conftree.py
@@ -304,3 +304,14 @@ def stringsToString(vs):
             out.append(s)
     return " ".join(out)
 
+def valToBool(s):
+    if not s:
+        return False
+    try:
+        val = int(s)
+        return val != 0
+    except:
+        pass
+    if type(s) == type(b''):
+        s = s.decode("UTF-8")
+    return s[0] in "tTyY"