# Variable.exists

### Variable.<mark style="color:purple;">exists</mark>() → bool

Checks to see whether the variable exists

### **Returns:**

**bool**

### **Examples:**

```python
table = redivis.organization("Demo").dataset("iris_species").table("iris")

variable = table.variable("sepalLengthCm")
variable.exists() # -> True

table.variable("some_nonexistent_var") # -> False
```