Using getattr in Python

[indiarocks]

Just a basic question .... When using getattr for a specific method from a different class, can we somehow tell getattr to do a case-insensitive search.

Say for eg. m = getattr(obj.__c lass__,'SetupCl ass') where obj is a object of a specific class.

If SetupClass is declared as setUPClass or in any other way, the return value of m is going to be None, so can this be avoided in any way

Thanks

[bartonc]

Just a basic question .... When using getattr for a specific method from a different class, can we somehow tell getattr to do a case-insensitive search.

Say for eg. m = getattr(obj.__c lass__,'SetupCl ass') where obj is a object of a specific class.

If SetupClass is declared as setUPClass or in any other way, the return value of m is going to be None, so can this be avoided in any way

Thanks

In your class, you can play with the names any way that you want to as I do here. In my default holder class "default" is appended inside the class so that I can pick out only that attrs that I want and stripped of on the way out. Have fun and keep posting,
Barton

[bvdet]

Just a basic question .... When using getattr for a specific method from a different class, can we somehow tell getattr to do a case-insensitive search.

Say for eg. m = getattr(obj.__c lass__,'SetupCl ass') where obj is a object of a specific class.

If SetupClass is declared as setUPClass or in any other way, the return value of m is going to be None, so can this be avoided in any way

Thanks

In this example 'name' is a class attribute of instance d2.__class__, but could have been a method as well:

>>> s = 'NaMe'
>>> def lower_name(s, obj):
... 	for item in dir(obj):
... 		if item.lower() == s.lower():
... 			return item
... 		
>>> lower_name(s, d2)
'name'
>>> getattr(d2.__class__, lower_name(s, d2))
'Plane3D'
>>> d2.name
'Plane3D'
>>>