Re: Referencing vars, methods and classes by name

En Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:29:23 -0300, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> escribió:

"Sagari" <boyandin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
$a = ''b';
$obj->$a(); // call method b() of the instance $obj

What is the Python way of performing the same indirections?

For your last example we could say

obj.getattr(a)()

but even that is a bit ugly, depending.

Surely you meant to say getattr(obj, a)()

--
Gabriel Genellina

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