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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 09:23:29 +0100
From: Johannes Schneider <johannes.schneider@galileo-press.de>
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Hi list,
can somebody explain me the difference between accessing attributes via
obj.attribute and getattr(obj, "attribute")?

Is there a special reason or advantage when using getattr?

bg,
Johannes

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