Peter Otten wrote, on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11:35 PM > > Deborah Swanson wrote: > > > It's a small point, but I suspect getattr(record, label) > would still > > fail, even if label's value is 'label' and only 'label', but what's > > the point of having a variable if it will only ever have just one > > value? > > You are misunderstanding. Your getattr() call fails because you have > > label = "label" > > burried somewhere in your code. As soon as you change that to > > label = <insert an existing attribute name here> > > the error will go away.
Yes, the error goes away, but now getattr(record, label) is useless for processing field names, unless you want to write a line of code for each one. (I have 17 field names, and forget about passing label to a function.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
