Use setattr's counterpart, getattr :-)
getattr(inst, k).add(relatedObject)
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Chris Pagnutti <chris.pagnu...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Awesome. Thanks Brad. Now the question is, what if the attribute is a
> ManyToManyField.
>
> e.g.
> inst.k.add(relatedObject)
>
> How to reference k properly if k is a string containing the name of a
> ManyToManyField of inst?
>
>
> On Friday, October 26, 2012 11:37:36 AM UTC-4, Chris Pagnutti wrote:
>>
>> Say I have a model like
>> class MyModel(models.Model)
>> name = models.CharField(max_length=**100)
>> number = models.IntegerField()
>>
>> In a script, I want to have something like
>> fields = {"name":"Joe", "number":5}
>>
>> And I want to update a MyModel instance using the fields dictionary,
>> something like this
>> inst = MyModel.objects.get(pk=2)
>> for k,v in fields.iteritems():
>> inst.k = v # I tried with inst.F(k) = v and inst.eval(k) = v but
>> python doesn't like that either
>>
>> I hope I'm being clear in what I'm trying to do. The reason I have to do
>> it this way is that I don't know which model, and therefore fields, I'm
>> dealing with until run-time.
>> Please ask questions if this isn't clear.
>>
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