Mathieu Prevot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a program that take a word as argument, and I would like to > link this word to a class variable. > > eg. > class foo(): > width = 10 > height = 20 > > a=foo() > arg='height' > a.__argname__= new_value
Not quite sure what the above is supposed to achieve > rather than : > > if arg == 'height': > a.height = new_value > elif arg == 'width'; > a.width = new_value > > Can I do this with python ? How ? setattr(a, arg, new_value) See: http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list