[Zope-DB] Newbie question: zsql result conundrum

Kevin Chambers kevin@molingo.com
Mon, 19 May 2003 15:57:05 -0700


Thanks for helping me understand the endlessly fascinationg "zopization" of python!

KC

Dieter Maurer wrote:

> Kevin Chambers wrote at 2003-5-15 20:44 -0700:
>  > I know there must be an easy way to get this.  I need to get a field data from 
>  > ...
>  > field1="firstname"
>  > ...
>  >     print "%s: %s" % (field1, rec.firstname)
> 
> You ask here for "computed attribute access".
> 
> Python's way to support it is the "getattr" function:
> 
> 	 getattr(object,expr_evaluating_to_attribute_name [,default])
> 
> More information in the Python Library Reference manual.
> 
> 
> Dieter