Thanks,

I was hoping for something like that.  I missed that in the docs.

Mark

On Oct 30, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Malthe Borch wrote:

> Try using "exists:".
> 
>   http://pagetemplates.org/docs/latest/reference.html#types
> 
> E.g.
> 
>   <div tal:condition="exists: some_callable">
>      ...
> 
> \malthe
> 
> On 29 October 2011 15:34, Mark Erbaugh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is there a way in a tal:condition test to test if a given variable has been 
>> defined?  For example, if my view callable has not defined a variable in the 
>> response object, can I use a tal:condition to exclude a section of the 
>> template that depends on that variable being defined?
>> 
>> Here's what I'm trying to do. I have a template that provides the bulk 
>> layout of each page. It's used as a macro that each individual page 
>> includes. As part of the macro, I'd like to have a section that is included 
>> only if the individual page defines a variable. tal:condition seems to 
>> require that the variable be defined and have a False value. One approach I 
>> thought of, but couldn't seem to get working was to define the variable to 
>> nothing in the macro (tal:define="variable nothing") and have the client 
>> view re-define it, but I must not understand scope or something as the 
>> client definition of the variable didn't seem to replace the tal:define 
>> value.
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
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