Hi, My apologies for troubling for what is probably an easy question... it's just that can't seem to find an answer to this anywhere (Googling, pydocs, etc.)...
I have a class method, MyClass.foo(), that takes keyword arguments. For example, I can say: x = MyClass() x.foo(trials=32) Works just fine. What I need to be able to do is call foo() with a string value specifying the keyword (or both the keyword and value would be fine), something along the lines of: x = MyClass() y = 'trials=32' x.foo(y) # doesn't work or x.MyClass() y = 'trials' x.foo(y = 32) # does the "wrong" thing Surely there's some way to use a string's value as the key for making a method call with a keyword argument? Just for completeness, my goal is simply to read a bunch of key/value pairs from an INI file (using ConfigObj) and then use those key/value pairs to set a (3rd party) object's parameters, which must be done with a call along the lines of "instance.set(key=value)". Obviously, I could create a huge if..elif statement along the lines of "if y = 'trials': x.foo(trials=32); elif y = 'speed': x.foo(speed=12);" etc., but then the statement has to be maintained every time a new parameter is added/changed etc. Plus, such a solution seems to me grossly inelegant and un-Pythonic. Thanks in advance for any and all assistance! Doug -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
