Python Object Question

[Jose' Sebrosa]

Jason Joy wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am having a bit of trouble with the following piece of code...
> 
>                 result = objectChunk()
>                 masterkeys = output.keys()
>                 for key in masterkeys:
>                         result.key = output[key]
>                 ## I might have to do something different above...
>                 data.append(result)
> 
> Where result.key is, of course, taken literally as result.key, not depending
> on what the variable key is.  Does anyone know how I can make it use the
> actual value of "key"?

Try to use setattr: replace the line 

                         result.key = output[key]

*exactly* by

                         setattr(result, key, output[key])

Also maybe you would like to check the {}.items() method of dictionaries. If
you dont need to use the "masterkeys" later, you can drop it like here:

                 result = objectChunk()
                 ## masterkeys = output.keys()
                 for key, value in output.items():
                         setattr(result, key, value)
                 data.append(result)

Sebrosa