[Tutor] Putting a variable into a statement

[bob gailer]

GoodPotatoes wrote:
> I am using the module active_directory and have an ad object called 
> myuser.
>
> I would like to run a series of statements like:
>
> myuser.attribute
>
> where attribute is a string variable, but python says that this is not 
> the correct syntax.
>
> error:
> for x in myuser.properties:    # "myuser.properties" returns a tuple 
> of properties associated with the myuser AD object
>     print myuser.x
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<pyshell#148>", line 2, in <module>
>     print myuser.x
>   File "build\bdist.win32\egg\active_directory.py", line 421, in 
> __getattr__
>     raise AttributeError
> AttributeError
>

print getattr(myuser ,x)

>
> example:
> >>> myuser.properties[0] #first value in user tuple
> u'cn'
> >>> myuser.cn
> u'Joe Sixpack'
>
> How can I iterate through all of the values of the properties tuple 
> and get each value?
>
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