Gregory Ewing wrote, on February 23, 2017 9:07 PM > > Deborah Swanson wrote: > > I've run into this kind of problem with namedtuples before, > trying to > > access field values with variable names, like: > > > > label = 'Location' > > records.label > > If you need to access an attribute whose name is computed > at run time, you want getattr() and setattr(): > > value = getattr(record, label) > > setattr(record, label, value) > > Using these, I suspect you'll be able to eliminate all > the stuff you've got that messes around with indexes to > access field values, making the code a lot simpler and > easier to follow. > > -- > Greg
Steve D'Aprano mentioned using getattr(record, label) and I thought that might be the way to untangle a lot of the mess I made. Been futzing around with different ways to use it, but I'll look at setattr(record, label, value) first thing in the morning. Thanks bunches! Deborah -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
