Get boolean value from request send by Ajax

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def get_boolean_from_request(request, key, method='POST'):
	" gets the value from request and returns it's boolean state "
	value = getattr(request, method).get(key, False)
	
	if value == 'False' or value == 'false' or value == '0' or value == 0:
		value = False
	elif value: 
		value = True
	else:
		value = False
		
	return value

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Comments

SmileyChris (on July 1, 2009):

is_true = lambda value: bool(value) and value.lower() not in ('false', '0')

is_true(request.POST.get(key))

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