call of non-function (type string) error

[Andrew Dalke]

Graham Guttocks:
>This doesn't seem to work for me:
>
>>>> CIPHER = "DES3"
>>>> import Crypto.Cipher
>>>> cipher = getattr(Crypto.Cipher, CIPHER)
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>AttributeError: DES3

How about

CIPHER = "DES3"
Crypto = __import__("Crypto.Cipher.%s" % CIPHER)
cipher = getattr(Crypto.Cipher, CIPHER)

(Sorry, don't have Crypto installed to test it out.)

                    Andrew
                    dalke at acm.org