Learning Golang from a Pythonista if "foo" in alist:

gistfile1.go

    // lookup for the users table create it otherwise
    // var tables []string and StringSlice are equivalent
    var tables sort.StringSlice
    err = r.TableList().Run(session).All(&tables)
    if err != nil {
        log.Panic(err)
    }

    // I miss python if "users" in tables
    exists := false
    for _, element := range tables {
        if element == "users" {
            exists = true
            break
        }
    }
    if !exists {
        err = r.TableCreate("users").Run(session).Exec()
        if err != nil {
            log.Panic(err)
        }
    }

    // but you still can
    sort.Sort(tables)
    if sort.SearchStrings(tables, "users") != 0 {
        err = r.TableCreate("users").Run(session).Exec()
        if err != nil {
            log.Panic(err)
        }
    }