extended setattr()

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Andre Adrian wrote:

> Diez B. Roggisch <deets <at> nospam.web.de> writes:
> 
>> > def ext_setattr(obj, attr, val):
>> >     for subattr in attr.split("."):
>> >         obj = getattr(obj, subattr)
>> >     obj = val
>> > 
>> >>>> import test
>> >>>> a = A()
>> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>> > NameError: name 'A' is not defined
>> >>>> a = test.A()
>> >>>> a.B.C.txt
>> > 'foo'
>> >>>> ext_setattr(a, 'B.C.txt', 'bar')
>> >>>> a.B.C.txt
>> > 'foo'
>> > 
>> > What am i doing wrong?
>> 
>> obj = val won't work.
> 
> Why is this so? Shouldn't it be the same?

No, of course not! 

obj = val

binds the object reffered to by val to the LOCAL name obj. That's python
101, make sure you get variables/names and scopes proper.
 
>> You need to use a setattr(obj, name, val)
>> on the last attribute-name.
> 
> Ok, so this works:
> 
> def ext_setattr(obj, attr, val):
>     attributes = attr.split('.')
>     for subattr in attributes[:-1]:
>         obj = getattr(obj, subattr)
>     setattr(obj, attributes[-1], val)

Yep.

Diez