Brian van den Broek wrote:
[snip text]
<code>
class A:

    def __init__(self):

self.something = None
self.something_else = None
self.still_another_thing = None
def update(self, data):


    for key in metadata_dict:
        if data.startswith(key):
                exec('''self.%s = """%s"""''' %(metadata_dict[key],
                     data[len(key):]))
        # triple quotes as there may be quotes in metadata
                # values
        break

[snip usage example and additional text]

Brian,

You could use setattr(self,metadata_dict[key],data[len(key):]).

Rich
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