On 8/16/2010 9:40 AM, Vikas Mahajan wrote:
Hello to all
I am new to python.
Hi, welcome to Python.
Hint 1: 'Variable' is a rather loose term with many meanings. Better to
think in terms of 'name' ('identifier'), which is specifically defined,
and 'object'.
I am facing problem to use variables as object attributes.
Your problem is that you have a attribute name stored in a string
object, rather than being an unquoted literal in the code.
I have to use loop and dynamically add attributes to a
object and for this purpose I have to use variables with object names.
You have to use strings with attribute names. Not uncommon
For example-:
Let us say object car has an attribute engine, then
varname = "engine"
car.varname = "dummy value"
setattr(car, varname, "dummy value")
is the runtime replacement for
car.engine = "dummy value"
Note that 'setattr(car, "engine", "dummy value")' would work but is
never needed, since if you have the attribute name itself, you just
write the assignment.
hasattr and getattr are similar.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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