[Tutor] new object attribute from string?

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> It is possible to dynamically add new attributes to our objects.  Each
> object in Python has an internal '__dict__' dictionary that 
> keeps track of all of its attributes:
> 
> ###
> >>> class TestAttribute:
> ...     def __init__(self, name):
> ...         self.name = name
> ...     def printInternals(self):
> ...         print "my dictionary looks like this:", self.__dict__
> 
> And we're already very familiar with dictionaries: we can 
> easily add new attributes by assigning another key to 
> that __dict__ionary.

But since we can achieve the same by simply assigning to a 
new attribute there is no need for such complexity

>>> t1.question = 'new object attribute from string?'

Achieves the same result

> >>> t1.question
> 'new object attribute from string?'

Alan g.
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