getattr nested attributes

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gregor Horvath wrote:

> Thank's, but this does not work for this case:
> 
> class A(object):
>     test = "test"
> 
> class B(object):
>     a = [A(),]
> 
> In [70]: reduce(getattr, "a[0].test".split("."), B)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>        Traceback (most recent call last)

getattr fetches a named attribute, it doesn't evaluate random code 
snippets.  please read the manual.

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