On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:28:07 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > yes - the point I am trying to make is that the intention of the OP > was to use an assignment as an argument, and you can't do that, > as the interpreter thinks its a keyword. Hence the gotcha.
Then you must have misunderstand his intention. He wanted to give the optional third argument of `getattr()` as keyword argument. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list