From 62dc568d20f168343f329f52c4e85d76932f5c66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?F=C3=A1bio=20C=2E=20Barrionuevo=20da=20Luz?=
 <bnafta@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 01:17:14 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] safely parse DEBUG environment variable

---
 inotify/adapters.py | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/inotify/adapters.py b/inotify/adapters.py
index e8301da..80a92e3 100644
--- a/inotify/adapters.py
+++ b/inotify/adapters.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import struct
 import collections
 import time
+from distutils.util import strtobool
 
 from errno import EINTR
 
@@ -34,7 +35,15 @@
                     ])
 
 _STRUCT_HEADER_LENGTH = struct.calcsize(_HEADER_STRUCT_FORMAT)
-_IS_DEBUG = bool(int(os.environ.get('DEBUG', '0')))
+
+def _cast_boolean(value):
+    """
+    Helper to convert config values to boolean as ConfigParser do.
+    """
+    value = str(value)
+    return bool(value) if value == '' else bool(strtobool(value))
+
+_IS_DEBUG = _cast_boolean(os.environ.get('DEBUG', '0'))
 
 
 class EventTimeoutException(Exception):