2800: Introduce config.flag_is_true() to Python SDK.

[arvados.git] / sdk / python / arvados / config.py

diff --git a/sdk/python/arvados/config.py b/sdk/python/arvados/config.py
index e205e9239a65818f7ce21863ed676d96a46c737c..2b8374afb5c493cbf0eaeecc4d95da5325433865 100644 (file)
--- a/sdk/python/arvados/config.py
+++ b/sdk/python/arvados/config.py
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ def initialize(config_file=default_config_file):
         if var.startswith('ARVADOS_'):
             _settings[var] = os.environ[var]
 
+def flag_is_true(key):
+    return get(key, '').lower() in set(['1', 't', 'true', 'y', 'yes'])
+
 def get(key, default_val=None):
     return settings().get(key, default_val)