I've noticed that the

from_conf

function has unexpected behaviour when handling Boolean configurations. For example, the code

from_conf('SOME_CONFIG', default=False)

will return

True

for all settings of

METAFLOW_SOME_CONFIG

other than an empty string. The problem line seems to be here. I'm guess this is not the expected behaviour?

Good catch. I believe @dry-beach-38304 was looking into this

yes, the PR is here: https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow/pull/1426

awesome, thanks!

yes, this has been there for a really long time and it finally annoyed me enough to do the fix 🙂