Re: using getattr/setattr for local variables in a member function

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On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:52:21 +0000, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> 
wrote:
> > If I have a class that has some member functions, and all the 
functions
> > define a local variable of the same name (but different type), is 
there
> > some way to use getattr/setattr to access the local variables 
specific
> > to a given function?

If you mean to access them from within the same method, someone else 
has already shown it using locals(). But you cannot access locals 
from a method that's already terminated. They no longer exist.

-- 
DaveA

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using getattr/setattr for local variables in a member function Catherine M Moroney <Catherine.M.Moroney@jpl.nasa.gov> - 2013-11-21 15:12 -0800
  Re: using getattr/setattr for local variables in a member function MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-11-22 00:52 +0000
  Re: using getattr/setattr for local variables in a member function Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-11-21 17:58 -0800
  Re: using getattr/setattr for local variables in a member function Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-11-21 21:02 -0500
  Re: using getattr/setattr for local variables in a member function Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-11-21 19:18 -0800
  Re: using getattr/setattr for local variables in a member function Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-11-22 17:07 +1300

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