diff --git a/django/contrib/sessions/backends/base.py b/django/contrib/sessions/backends/base.py
index 64955b8bb7..d469dab44d 100644
--- a/django/contrib/sessions/backends/base.py
+++ b/django/contrib/sessions/backends/base.py
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ class SessionBase:
     def is_empty(self):
         "Return True when there is no session_key and the session is empty."
         try:
-            return not bool(self._session_key) and not self._session_cache
+            return not self._session_key and not self._session_cache
         except AttributeError:
             return True
 
diff --git a/django/core/validators.py b/django/core/validators.py
index 07236b7d26..15a8beafe2 100644
--- a/django/core/validators.py
+++ b/django/core/validators.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ class RegexValidator:
         Validate that the input contains (or does *not* contain, if
         inverse_match is True) a match for the regular expression.
         """
-        regex_matches = bool(self.regex.search(str(value)))
+        regex_matches = self.regex.search(str(value))
         invalid_input = regex_matches if self.inverse_match else not regex_matches
         if invalid_input:
             raise ValidationError(self.message, code=self.code)
diff --git a/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py b/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py
index 2b0590de3a..9e381fd269 100644
--- a/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py
+++ b/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py
@@ -1215,12 +1215,10 @@ class SQLInsertCompiler(SQLCompiler):
         qn = self.connection.ops.quote_name
         opts = self.query.get_meta()
         result = ['INSERT INTO %s' % qn(opts.db_table)]
-
-        has_fields = bool(self.query.fields)
-        fields = self.query.fields if has_fields else [opts.pk]
+        fields = self.query.fields or [opts.pk]
         result.append('(%s)' % ', '.join(qn(f.column) for f in fields))
 
-        if has_fields:
+        if self.query.fields:
             value_rows = [
                 [self.prepare_value(field, self.pre_save_val(field, obj)) for field in fields]
                 for obj in self.query.objs
diff --git a/django/forms/forms.py b/django/forms/forms.py
index e2e7c645ff..a43f80996b 100644
--- a/django/forms/forms.py
+++ b/django/forms/forms.py
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ class BaseForm:
         if self._errors is None:
             is_valid = "Unknown"
         else:
-            is_valid = self.is_bound and not bool(self._errors)
+            is_valid = self.is_bound and not self._errors
         return '<%(cls)s bound=%(bound)s, valid=%(valid)s, fields=(%(fields)s)>' % {
             'cls': self.__class__.__name__,
             'bound': self.is_bound,
diff --git a/django/forms/widgets.py b/django/forms/widgets.py
index 498185fe23..c758b36e91 100644
--- a/django/forms/widgets.py
+++ b/django/forms/widgets.py
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ class Select(ChoiceWidget):
     def _choice_has_empty_value(choice):
         """Return True if the choice's value is empty string or None."""
         value, _ = choice
-        return (isinstance(value, str) and not bool(value)) or value is None
+        return (isinstance(value, str) and not value) or value is None
 
     def use_required_attribute(self, initial):
         """
diff --git a/django/template/backends/base.py b/django/template/backends/base.py
index c47c95e51e..22628c6355 100644
--- a/django/template/backends/base.py
+++ b/django/template/backends/base.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class BaseEngine:
         params = params.copy()
         self.name = params.pop('NAME')
         self.dirs = list(params.pop('DIRS'))
-        self.app_dirs = bool(params.pop('APP_DIRS'))
+        self.app_dirs = params.pop('APP_DIRS')
         if params:
             raise ImproperlyConfigured(
                 "Unknown parameters: {}".format(", ".join(params)))
diff --git a/django/utils/http.py b/django/utils/http.py
index 7e4e58229f..c1c616a6fd 100644
--- a/django/utils/http.py
+++ b/django/utils/http.py
@@ -324,7 +324,6 @@ def _urlsplit(url, scheme='', allow_fragments=True):
     Note that we don't break the components up in smaller bits
     (e.g. netloc is a single string) and we don't expand % escapes."""
     url, scheme, _coerce_result = _coerce_args(url, scheme)
-    allow_fragments = bool(allow_fragments)
     netloc = query = fragment = ''
     i = url.find(':')
     if i > 0: