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From: "R. Michael Weylandt" <michael.weylandt@gmail.com>
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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