Checking for an "undefined" variable - newbie question

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Dan Rawson:
> How do I check if a variable has been defined??
  [...]
> try:
>      variable
> except NameError:
>      ...

This is the answer to your question.

> If there's a more elegant way to check this, that would be great!

Why do you want to check it in the first place?

In particular, why not initialize your variable to some
out-of-band value (such as None) and test that?  E.g.,

    myvar = None
    # ... code which might set myvar to something else ...
    if myvar is None:
        # ...

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Steven Taschuk                            staschuk at telusplanet.net
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