eval of a private attribute

[Bertrand Geston]

"Skip Montanaro" <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message
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>
>     Cedric> I'd like to create a method which will be able to get any
>     Cedric> attribute of the class.
>
> Why use eval?  Why not simply
>
>     p = getattr(self.__class__, var)
>
> ?  The first arg restricts you to fetching class variables.  You could
also
> use 'self' there I suppose.
>
> --
> Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)
>

Yes, this is right with var = '_%s__%s' % (self.__class__.__name__, var)