Guy Robinson wrote: > Hello, > > I have a list of class instances. I wish to get the appropriate class attribute > in each class instance depending on a SINGLE keyword in the calling class. > > How do I get the calling method to correctly recognise the keyword as a keyword > and not a class attribute? See example code below (which doesn't work). > > class tocall: > def __init__(self): > self.title = "test" > self.name = "name" > > def callingmethod(self,**kw): > for key in kw: > if tocall.key == kw[key]: > return tocall.key > > which should work as such(but doesn't): > > print callmethod(title = "test") > print callmethod(name = "name") > > Regards, > > Guy You probably want something like this: class tocall: def __init__(self): self.title = "test" self.name = "name"
x = tocall() print getattr(x, 'title') print getattr(x, 'name') print getattr(x, 'bogus') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
