[Distutils] strtobool

[martigan]

Documentation

Specification of distutils.util function strtobool doesn't mention that the values are case insensitive.

https://docs.python.org/3.8/distutils/apiref.html#distutils.util.strtobool

I didn't tested on other python version but implementation found here hadn't change for a while.

[hugovk]

Thank you for the report.

I'll note that distutils is deprecated and has been removed from the upcoming Python 3.12:

• https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/
• https://docs.python.org/3.12/whatsnew/3.12.html#removed
• gh-92584: Remove the distutils package #99061

The PEP's migration advice says there's no planned replacement for strtobool and you'll need to implement it yourself, but it's only a dozen lines of code so you could grab directly.

We could update the docs for 3.10 and 3.11 (and separately, possibly update the docs at setuptools), but given the deprecation/removal status it's probably not worth it.