checking whether a var is empty or not

[Dave Benjamin]

In article <opsbxubr1g1v4ijd at musicbox>, Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud wrote:
>
> 	This smells like PHP to me...
> 
> if var is not None:
> 	if var has not been assigned, it raises an exception.
> 	if var has been assigned, it contains a value which can be None or  
> someting else.
> 
> 	This is different from PHP where you can't know if a variable exists or  
> not, because a non-existent variable will contain null if you check it,  
> and putting null in a variable is like deleting it, but noone knows  
> because there's no way of checking if a variable really exists, etc.

No, in PHP, you can find out if a variable exists using isset(). And trying
to dereference an uninitialized variable will generate a warning if you have
error reporting turned up all the way (error_reporting(E_ALL)).

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