> 2010/4/4 Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 1:42 AM, catalinf...@gmail.com
>> <catalinf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi everyone .
>> > My questions is "why vars().has_key('b') is False ?'
>> > I expecting to see "True" because is a variable ...
>>
>> The built-in constants and functions aren't global variables, they're
>> in the special __builtins__ dictionary/namespace, and thus not part of
>> globals() or vars().
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Cata <catalinf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So is not possible to testing if a variable is defined with this functions
> vars(), globals(), locals() ?
No, you just need to add another case for __builtins__
The scopes Python consults when looking up a name are:
1. Local scope - locals()
2. Nested function scope(s) - [I don't think these vars can be listed
at runtime]
3. Global scope - globals()
4. Built-ins - __builtins__
If you want to just check whether a variable is currently
defined+accessible, a try-except is much simpler:
var_name = "foo"
try:
eval(var_name)
except NameError:
defined = False
else:
defined = True
However, wanting to test whether a variable is defined or not is
usually a sign of bad code.
Could you explain exactly why you want/need to do such testing?
Cheers,
Chris
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