Chris Rebert wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 9:22 PM, AON LAZIO <aonla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> I would like to know how we could create attribute from string >> >> say I want to assign value 0.05 to an object attribute >> >> I like to input "SIGNIFICANT" and 0.05 and get >> object.SIGFICANT equals to 0.05 > > setattr(obj, "SIGNIFICANT", 0.05) > This bald reply, however, hides the simple fact that this is ALMOST NEVER what you actually want to do. Look at using a dict to store these values against string keys rather than playing with the namespace in this way.
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