King a écrit :
Python's getattr, setattr and __getattribute__ commands
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works fine with python types. For example: print o.__getattribute__("name")
A very few corner cases set aside - the main one being inside a custom __getattribute__ method -, you should not directly access __getattribute__ (nor most __magic_methods__ FWIW).
print getattr(o, "name") This is the easiest way to get an attribute using a string. In my case the "Node" class load/creates all the attributes from a xml file. Example <Input name="position" type="float" value="0.5"/> <Input name="color" type="color" value="0,0,0"/> There are certain atrributes of compound type.
There's no "compound type" in Python. There are only objects, objects and objects.
Example: # Array of colors, Here we are referring first color and second element (green) self.gradient.colors[0][1] = 0.5 # Array of floats, referring first element self.gradient.positions[0] = 1.0 Color, color array and floats are all custom classes. Now question is how to get these compound attributes using string as we do with default singular attributes. Example: getattr(o, "gradient.colors[0][1] ")
You can't (at least OOTB). the expression: gradient.colors[0][1] is a shortcut for: colors = gradients.__getattribute__("color") colors_0 = colors.__getitem__(0) colors_0_1 = colors_0.__getitem__(1) You can of course do something like g = getattr(o, "gradient") c = getattr(g, "colors") # etc... but I guess this is not what you're after.
I need this to save the data of nodes->attributes into a custom xml format, when loading this data back, I create the node first and then setup values from the saved xml file.
I really don't think you need anything like this to serialize / unserialize your objects (whatever the format FWIW). You should really google for +python +serialize +XML, I bet you'd find at least a couple helpful articles on that topic.
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