trouble testing for existance of variable

[Cliff Wells]

On 12 Mar 2002 13:52:01 -0800
googlePoster wrote:

> if I want to know if a variable exists before
> testing it, what do I do?

How about 

try:
   colors_name
except NameError:
   print "it doesn't exist"
else:
   print "it exists"

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Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
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