<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 January 2015 at 22:02, Randy Witt <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:randy.e.witt@linux.intel.com" target="_blank">randy.e.witt@linux.intel.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":9ie" class="" style="overflow:hidden">Would it be simpler to do &quot;bbvar = d.getVar(var + &quot;_&quot; + pak, False)&quot; so you don&#39;t get the expanded value, and then just check for ${D}? I suppose it would save one extra variable and a couple of expansions.<div class=""><div id=":9hj" class="" tabindex="0"></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Alejandro answered this point in the original thread:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:13px">&quot;using the existing package variable handling infrastructure within the class, ends up expanding the variables before being able to check them , using getVar(&#39;FOO&#39;, False) is useless in this case, any suggestions?&quot;</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:13px">Ross</span></div></div>