Check if object is a number or boolean

Question

Design a logical expression equivalent to the following statement:

x is a list of three or five elements, the second element of which is

Answer 1

I like to keep it simple to read.. This will accept bool, string, number and read it to a bool

def var2bool(v):
if type(v) == type(True):
    res = v
elif type(v) == type(0):
    if v == 0:
        res = False
    else:
        res = True
elif v.lower() in ("yes", "true", "t", "1"):
    res = True
else:
    res = False
return res