Any simpler way to do this

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Lars Johansen a écrit :
> I have a function that looks like this:
> 
> def Chooser(color):

<mode="pedant">
Bad naming (noun instead of a verb) and not conformant to PEP 08 
(function names should be all_lower)
</mode>

>         if color == "RED":
>                 x = term.RED
>         elif color == "BLUE":
>                 x = term.BLUE
>         elif color == "GREEN":
>                 x = term.GREEN
>         elif color == "YELLOW":
>                 x = term.YELLOW
>         elif color == "CYAN":
>                 x = term.CYAN
>         elif color == "MAGENTA":
>                 x = term.MAGENTA
>         return x


What do you think will happen if I call it like this:
    Chooser(42)

(if you answered 'will raise a NameError', then you're correct).

> 
> Wouldn there been easier if I could just skip all the "*if's" and just
> "return term.color", however this gives a syntax error, are there any
> clever way to do this ?

getattr(obj, name) is your friend.