Improved implementation - no need for setuptools either

Author: cdtomkins

pyproject.toml

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ authors = ["John Doe <[email protected]>"]
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = ">=3.9,<3.13"
 nautobot = "2.3.6"
-setuptools = ">=75.6.0"
 
 # nautobot-example-plugin = {path = "plugins/plugin_example", develop = true}
 

tasks.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 """Development Tasks."""
 
-from distutils.util import strtobool
 from time import sleep
 import os
 import toml
@@ -19,7 +18,14 @@ def is_truthy(arg):
     """
     if isinstance(arg, bool):
         return arg
-    return bool(strtobool(arg))
+
+    val = str(arg).lower()
+    if val in ("y", "yes", "t", "true", "on", "1"):
+        return True
+    elif val in ("n", "no", "f", "false", "off", "0"):
+        return False
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(f"Invalid truthy value: `{arg}`")
 
 
 # Use pyinvoke configuration for default values, see http://docs.pyinvoke.org/en/stable/concepts/configuration.html