There's an error in your quoted example: > dataset = Author.select() > record=get(1) > fieldname = "name"
it needs to say record = Author.get(1)
Instead of data = getattr(record, fieldname), which looks ugly to me,
perhaps you could consider using simply data = record.name
If the issue is that your field name is being determined
programatically, so you don't know it ahead of time, you could always
use the following:
data = eval("record.%" % (fieldname,))
