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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:11:44 +0100
From: Johannes Schneider <johannes.schneider@galileo-press.de>
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thank you guys.
On 11.12.2013 10:36, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 2013/12/11 Johannes Schneider <johannes.schneider@galileo-press.de>:
>> 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?
> You use getattr when the attribute name comes from a string, rather
> than a literal. There's no advantage to it when you know ahead of time
> what attribute you're looking for. It's useful when you iterate over
> dir(), for instance:
>
> print("You can call...")
> n=0
> for attr in dir(x):
>      if callable(getattr(x,attr)):
>          print("x.%s()"%attr)
>          n+=1
> print("...",n," options.")
>
> ChrisA


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