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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:46:52 +1100
Subject: Re: how to add object from dict
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:43 AM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> I'm guessing, but perhaps you need:
>
>     instance = getattr(self, "%s" % key)

How's that different from getattr(self,str(key))?

ChrisA