Your code is correct. Thanks I understood it. 'field' is a local variable inner that loop.
Respect to a related matter, a should be '42' Danny Yoo wrote: >On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Jonas Melian wrote: > > > >Hi Jonas, > > >Do you understand why it isn't working? > >The issue is that 'field' is just another variable name, and the >assignment just redirects that particular name to some other value. So >when we're doing: > > field = field.title() > >this statement has no effect on any other name, and in particular, doesn't >do any mutation on 'self'. > > >As a related matter: > >###### > > >>>>a = "42" >>>>b = a >>>>b = "17" >>>> >>>> >###### > >What do you expect 'a' to be? > > > > > >>I'm supposed that each iteration is overwriting the previous set value >> >>how solve it? using a dict? >> >> > >One way to do this is to use getattr() and setattr() so that we can do >mutation on 'self'. Your example above should work with: > >################################################### >def _pre_save(self): > for fieldname in ['name', 'native_name']: > value = getattr(self, fieldname) > if not value.istitle(): > setattr(self, fieldname, value.title()) >################################################### > > >Hope this helps! > > > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
