On Mar 5, 8:44 am, nuwandame <nuwand...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I have two objects obj1 and obj2. Inside obj1 there is an attribute for > success (obj1.success) and for containing other objects (obj1.data) > > I am using setattr() to add obj2 as an attribute to obj1.data > (obj1.data.obj2) this is working fine. > > My problem is when someone changes a variable in obj2 instance after it > is added to obj1 e.g. > > obj1.data.obj2.success = False > > I am trying to figure out how to locate and access obj1.success when > obj2.success has changed. > > Any assistance, pointers, ideas are much appreciated. > > JJ
Hi. There's no way in general, but if you will make a few assumptions, there are some possibilities. For example, you could make 'obj1.success' a descriptor, which searches its '__dict__', and looks for 'success' attributes in its contents. How does that strike you? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list