Question

The codes are like this:

class Test:
    a = 1
    def __init__(self):
        self.b=2

When I make an instance of Test, I can access its instance variable b like this(using the string “b”):

test = Test()
a_string = "b"
print test.__dict__[a_string]

But it doesn’t work for a as self.__dict__ doesn’t contain a key named a. Then how can I accessa if I only have a string a?

Thanks!

Answer 1

To get the variable, you can do:

getattr(test, a_string)