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

Date 2013-11-21 19:18 -0800
From Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
Subject Re: using getattr/setattr for local variables in a member function
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On 11/21/2013 06:02 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> Catherine Moroney 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.

Also, accessing is fine, but not all pythons support changing them.

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~Ethan~

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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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