variable update

[Steve Holden]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> km wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is there any handy untility for checking if  a variable is populated at 
>>runtime ?
> 
> 
> access it, and catch the NameError:
> 
>     try:
>         variable
>     except NameError:

In a function when accessing a not-yet-bound local variable you may also 
(as Fredrik knows but didn't bother to say) see an UnboundLocalError 
exception,

>         print "not defined"
>     else:
>         print "defined"
> 
> leaving variables undefined is usually bad style, though; if you can, 
> assign some value to it, and test for that value instead:
> 
>     variable = None
> 
>     ... lots of code that may assign to variable ...
> 
>     if variable is not None:
>         print "not defined"
> 
regards
  Steve
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