Check if variable is defined

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Tim Peters wrote:

>     if beatsme is None:
>         print "beatsme wasn't assigned anything meaningful yet"

This works. It also turns out that:

	foo=[]
	if foo: print "true"	# print true if foo not empty

works too, which is the behavior I was looking for. It doesn't work quite
so well on numbers (your example works better), but is fine for lists,
which is what I really needed anyway: something to detect empty lists.

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Todd A. Jacobs
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