Tag: setattr

getattr and setattr on nested subobjects / chained properties?

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I have an object (Person) that has multiple subobjects (Pet, Residence) as properties. I want to be able to dynamically set the properties of these subobjects like so: Currently I get the wrong output: {‘pet’: <__main__.Pet object at 0x10c5ec050>, ‘residence’: <__main__.Reside…

Python: inconsistence in the way you define the function setattr?

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Consider this code: I would expect the same output. However, with CPython 2.5, 2.6 (similarly in 3.2) I get: With PyPy 1.5.0, I get the expected output: Which is the “right” output? (Or what should be the output according to the Python documentation?) Here is the bug report for CPython. Answer I s…