undefined variable ?

Michael Hoffman m.h.3.9.1.without.dots.at.cam.ac.uk at example.com
Sat Oct 16 08:20:08 EDT 2004


vertigo wrote:

> How can i check if variable named var1 exists ?

It's frequently a better approach to assume that it does and catch an 
exception if it doesn't.

try:
     var1
except NameError:
     var1 = "neW"

But why do you want to do this?
-- 
Michael Hoffman



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