Re: [Tutor] getattr help

2012-03-10 Thread Peter Otten
mjole...@gmail.com wrote: > What is the purpose of getattr? Why not just use help or am I completely > misunderstanding this? > >>From what I read, getattr allows you to get a reference to a function >>without knowing its name until runtime. > > However, the example provided is: > > li = ['larr

[Tutor] getattr help

2012-03-09 Thread mjolewis
What is the purpose of getattr? Why not just use help or am I completely misunderstanding this? >From what I read, getattr allows you to get a reference to a function without >knowing its name until runtime. However, the example provided is: li = ['larry', 'curly] getattr(li, 'pop') It seems