[Tutor] Dicts and classes

[Lloyd Kvam]

Kirby's examples are wonderfully concise, but you might have overlooked the
setattr and getattr functions which are also possible solutions.

VanL wrote:

> Is there any way to do this:
> 
> class customer:
>    def __init__(self, info):
>        for k in info.keys(): self.k = info[k]

Works if info is a dictionary.
(Again, see Kirby's examples for clever alternatives.)


>    def change(self, name, value):
>        self.name = value

	setattr(self, name, value)


>    def print(self, name):
>        print self.name

	print getattr(self, name)


> 
> and even:
> 
> bob = customer({'name':'Bob', 'lastname':'Jones','phone':'555-1234'})
> for member in bob.keys(): print bob.member

	for member in bob.__dict__.keys(): print getattr(bob, member)


> 
> or finally:
> print 'Customer: %(name)s %(lastname)s' % bob

	print 'Customer: %(name)s %(lastname)s' % bob.__dict__

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