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# Copyright (c) 2016 Tim Rozet (trozet@redhat.com) and others.
#
# All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
# are made available under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0
# which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
##############################################################################

import yaml


def str2bool(var):
    if isinstance(var, bool):
        return var
    else:
        return var.lower() in ("true", "yes")


def parse_yaml(yaml_file):
    with open(yaml_file) as f:
        parsed_dict = yaml.safe_load(f)
        return parsed_dict