How to avoid writing request.GET.get() twice in order to print it?

Question

I come from a PHP background and would like to know if there\'s a way to do this in Python.

In PHP you can kill 2 birds with one stone like this:

Instead of

Answer 1

If get() throws an exception when it's not there, you could do

try:
   q = request.GET.get('q')
   print q
except :
   pass