how to pass attribute name via sys.argv

[Gilles Lenfant]

Felix Hebeler a écrit :
> Hi all,
> I am doing some Python scripting for a while, but I'm not too deep into 
> it yet. So I have a problem I can't solve.
> 
> I need to call an object attribute:
> 
> value = object.attrName[0]
> 
> the problem is, that the attribute name can only be specified at runtime.
> 
> So what I have is something like
> 
>  >>> attrName = sys.argv[1]
>  >>> attrName
> 'cellsize'
> 
> and I need to pass it on so I can call
> 
> value = object.cellsize[0]
> 
> 
> Can this be done using Python?
> 
> Thanks for any hints
> 
> Cheers
> Felix

The builtin "setattr" is your friend.
"object" is now a reserved (builtin) name, use "objekt" instead.

class Foo(object):
     pass
objekt = Foo()
attrName = sys.argv[1]
values = ['foo', 'bar', 'whatever']
setattr(objekt, attrName, values)

HTH

--
Gilles