Re: Newbie Q: dynamically assigning object attribute

2006-02-10 Thread Ben Wilson
Well, my Perl way of doing it would be to have all attributes in a dict (hash), then create the accessor vi a dynamic function. I knew Python would have a right way to do it for Python, but when I went looking I neglected to look at the core of the language. I suppose I'm just too accustomed to the

Re: Newbie Q: dynamically assigning object attribute

2006-02-10 Thread Sion Arrowsmith
Ben Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would like to dynamically assign object attributes: > >dict = { > a : 1, > b : 2, >} > >for key,val in dict : > obj.key = val > >I've googled to no effect, or maybe I'm needing to be hit with the >appropriately sized clue-by-four. The conventional clue-by-

Re: Newbie Q: dynamically assigning object attribute

2006-02-09 Thread Dylan Moreland
No problem. There are, in fact, ugly class-based methods of doing this. You could assign to an instance's __dict__ dictionary, or -- if the class is a new-style class -- you can call the __setattr__(self, name, value) method. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie Q: dynamically assigning object attribute

2006-02-09 Thread Ben Wilson
That's it. I should spend more time R-ingTFM. I kept looking for some class-based solution and there was a built in. Perfectly logical. Thanks, Ben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie Q: dynamically assigning object attribute

2006-02-09 Thread Dylan Moreland
Take a look at the built-in function setattr: http://ftp.python.org/doc/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-64 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Newbie Q: dynamically assigning object attribute

2006-02-09 Thread Ben Wilson
I would like to dynamically assign object attributes: dict = { a : 1, b : 2, } for key,val in dict : obj.key = val To get: print obj.a 1 I've googled to no effect, or maybe I'm needing to be hit with the appropriately sized clue-by-four. Any assistance would be appreciated. Regards, Ben