How to pass bool argument to fabric command

boolean, fabric, python

Solution

As mentioned in the fabric docs, all the arguments end up as strings. The simplest thing to do here would just check the argument:

def myfunc(arg1, arg2):
  arg1 = (arg1 == 'True')

The parentheses aren't required, but help with readability.

Edit: Apparently I didn't actually try my previous answer; updated. (Two years later.)

Problem

Currently I'm using `fab -f check_remote.py func:"arg1","arg2"...` to run fab remote. Now I need to send a bool arg, but True/False become a string arg, how to set it as bool type?

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