I am trying to convert a string to a variable. I got cases 1 & 2 to work, but not cases 3 & 4.
The print statement in cases 3 & 4 reports the following: builtins.AttributeError: type object 'animal' has no attribute 'tiger' I am stuck on creating variables that can be accessed as follows. animal.tiger self.animal.tiger Any suggestions? Thanks, Bruce # Tested on Python 3.6.5 # Case 1: This works indata = 'animal_tiger' vars()[indata] = "Tigers, big and strong!" print (animal_tiger) # Case 2: This works class animal(): def create (self, indata): vars(self)[indata] = "Tigers, big and strong!" print (self.animal_tiger) tmp = animal() tmp.create('animal_tiger') ############################################################# # Case 3: This does not work indata = 'animal.tiger' vars()[indata] = "Tigers, big and strong!" print (animal.tiger) #Case 4: This does not work class animal(): def create (self, indata): vars(self)[indata] = "Tigers, big and strong!" print (self.animal.tiger) tmp = animal() tmp.create('animal.tiger') -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list