Import Question ..

[Steve]

Hi Vinod,

> This is quite frustrating if i have lots of definitions. So is there a way where i could get something like:
> 
> def dosomething(something):
> 
>     str = something+CommonPart # something is passed as a string
>     listdef = def.str
> 
> basically i am asking if i can pass the string value to get an attribute from the def file. I 
> tried doing something like in the above case, but it returns and tells me def has no 
> attribute str.

of course 'def' does not have an attribute called 'str' since you
haven't defined any variable/function/class ..etc called 'str' in
def.py.

However, you can use the builtin getattr() to do what you want to:
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>>> print getattr.__doc__
getattr(object, name[, default]) -> value

Get a named attribute from an object; getattr(x, 'y') is equivalent to x.y.
When a default argument is given, it is returned when the attribute doesn't
exist; without it, an exception is raised in that case.
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so you could do something like:
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def dosomething(something):
    import def
    s = something+CommonPart # something is passed as a string
    listdef = getattr(def, s)
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HTH
Steve