Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 12:16:24 -0800, John Machin wrote: > > > The OP might consider adding code to the __init__ method to check for > > cases where the dictionary key is not a string containing a valid > > Python identifier (not a keyword). > [snip] > But if he's doing something like this: > > attributes = fetch_user_dict() > # attribute names aren't known until runtime > obj.__dict__.update(attributes) > for key in attributes: > print getattr(obj, key) > > then it is also redundant to check for valid identifiers, since getattr() > doesn't need them.
but getattr() needs strings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
