[Zope-DB] Newbie question: zsql result conundrum

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Fri, 16 May 2003 21:39:54 +0200


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