typeof foo == 'undefined' ???

[Rainer Deyke]

"Jay Chalfant" <jchalfan at outbackinc.com> wrote in message
news:jlHM5.33$934.1098 at news.callamer.com...
> Hello,
>
> This is a valid JavaScript expression:
>
> typeof foo == 'undefined'

type(foo) == 'undefined' is a valid Python expression, but it doesn't do
what you want it to do.

> and is useful in testing the existince of object member vars such as:
>
> if ( typeof foo.bar == 'undefined' )
>     print("I don't have that!")
>
> Is there an equivalent test in Python?

hasattr(foo, 'bar')


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