--- ConfigParser.py.orig	Wed Jun 16 10:27:15 2004
+++ ConfigParser.py	Wed Jun 16 10:34:25 2004
@@ -317,12 +317,14 @@
     def getfloat(self, section, option):
         return self._get(section, float, option)
 
-    _boolean_states = {'1': True, 'yes': True, 'true': True, 'on': True,
-                       '0': False, 'no': False, 'false': False, 'off': False}
+    _boolean_states = {'1': True, 'yes': True, 'true': True, 'on': True, True : True, 1 : True,
+                       '0': False, 'no': False, 'false': False, 'off': False, False : False, 0 : False}
 
     def getboolean(self, section, option):
         v = self.get(section, option)
-        if v.lower() not in self._boolean_states:
+        if type(v) == str:
+            v = v.lower()
+        if v not in self._boolean_states:
             raise ValueError, 'Not a boolean: %s' % v
         return self._boolean_states[v.lower()]