How to check the exists of a name?

[Ben Finney]

David <71david at libero.it> writes:

> Il Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:43:36 -0700 (PDT), StarWing ha scritto:
>
> > I got a idea, use a try...except statement. there are another way to
> > do it ?
> > 
> > (I just curious now, because I solve my problem in another way :-)
>
> locals().has_key(myname) 
> globals().has_key(myname)

The ‘dict.has_key’ method is deprecated, and is removed in Python 3.

The ‘in’ operator now works on dict objects:

    'foo' in locals()
    'foo' in globals()

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Ben Finney