Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should we *really* be encouraging newbies to mess with globals() and > locals()? Isn't that giving them the tools to shoot their foot off before > teaching them how to put shoes on?
Why risk damaging perfectly good footwear? But, seriously, I agree with you. The cannonical way to tell if a variable exists in Python is to try to access it and catch any resulting NameError. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
