diff --git a/nnvm/include/nnvm/tuple.h b/nnvm/include/nnvm/tuple.h
index b3193ca29eb8..551300b277ca 100644
--- a/nnvm/include/nnvm/tuple.h
+++ b/nnvm/include/nnvm/tuple.h
@@ -202,8 +202,6 @@ class Tuple {
       if (it != begin) os << ',';
       os << *it;
     }
-    // python style tuple
-    if (t.ndim() == 1) os << ',';
     os << ']';
     return os;
   }
diff --git a/nnvm/python/nnvm/top/attr_dict.py b/nnvm/python/nnvm/top/attr_dict.py
index b5baf3decbde..2c37a0e40d6a 100644
--- a/nnvm/python/nnvm/top/attr_dict.py
+++ b/nnvm/python/nnvm/top/attr_dict.py
@@ -94,7 +94,17 @@ def get_bool(self, key):
         value : bool
             The result value
         """
-        return self[key] != "False"
+        lowercase = self[key].lower()
+        if lowercase == "1":
+            return True
+        elif lowercase == "0":
+            return False
+        elif lowercase == "true":
+            return True
+        elif lowercase == "false":
+            return False
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("Wrong bool format for key %s" % key)
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return str({k : self[k] for k in self.keys()})