"Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > stef mientki schrieb: > > What should I do to the same simple test for existance ? > > Use isinstance(obj, type).
No, that's *far* more specific than "does it exist", and will give false negatives. Much better is:: foo = None foo = do_something_to_get_instance() # ... if foo is not None: # foo was bound to an instance correctly Even better is just to use the object, and if it's not what was expected, catch the exception at a level that knows what to do about it. -- \ "At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free | `\ and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill | _o__) contained the antidote." -- Emo Philips | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list