Check For SELF Variable Existance

[Terry Reedy]

"Robert Rawlins" <robert.rawlins at thinkbluemedia.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:40727.816677145$1205243089 at news.gmane.org...
| Thank you Simon,
|
| I was hoping there would be something as simple as that :-)
| >>> class Spam(object):
| ...     def egg(self):
| ...         if hasattr(self, 'chips'): print 'got chips!'

I strongly suggest that you read Library Reference Ch.2 on builtin 
functions and types.