Brian van den Broek wrote: [snip text]
<code> class A:
def __init__(self):
self.something = None
self.something_else = None
self.still_another_thing = None
def update(self, data):
for key in metadata_dict: if data.startswith(key): exec('''self.%s = """%s"""''' %(metadata_dict[key], data[len(key):])) # triple quotes as there may be quotes in metadata # values break
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Brian,
You could use setattr(self,metadata_dict[key],data[len(key):]).
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