defined test?

[Michael P. Soulier]

	Ok, I'm currently a Perl programmer who's looking into Python. I was
wondering, is there an equivalent of the defined() function in Python, to test
if a given variable name is defined?

	Sorry if this has been answered now for the umpteenth time. 

	Mike

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