On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Ben Collier <bmcoll...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know that I can dynamically reference a variable with locals()["i"], for > instance, but I'd like to know how to do this with a variable in an object. > > If I have an object called "device", with variables called attr1, attr2 .. > attr50, how could I dynamically reference these? > > It's fairly academic, but I'd like to avoid code duplication. >
Check out the getattr function: http://docs.python.org/3.5/library/functions.html#getattr But if you're doing that sort of thing, you may want to consider using a dictionary instead. :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
