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Re: Dynamically reference member of array

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From "R. Michael Weylandt" <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>
Date Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:50:31 -0400
Subject Re: Dynamically reference member of array
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Ben Collier <bmcollier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know that I can dynamically reference a variable with locals()["i"], for instance, but I'd like to know how to do this with a variable in an object.
>
> If I have an object called "device", with variables called attr1, attr2 .. attr50, how could I dynamically reference these?
>

I think the pythonic term you're looking for is "attribute". See
getattr() and setattr()

Cheers,
Michael

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Dynamically reference member of array Ben Collier <bmcollier@gmail.com> - 2014-03-26 04:43 -0700
  Dynamically reference variable in object Ben Collier <bmcollier@gmail.com> - 2014-03-26 04:44 -0700
    Re: Dynamically reference variable in object Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-03-26 15:19 -0600
      Re: Dynamically reference variable in object Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-26 23:42 +0000
  Re: Dynamically reference member of array "R. Michael Weylandt" <michael.weylandt@gmail.com> - 2014-03-29 22:50 -0400

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