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Defining an object's argument whose name is stored in a variable
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Hi everybody

Window being a class, I define an Window objet's argument whose name is stored in a variable with the following code :
w=Window()
arg='toto'
val='any value'
exec('w.'+arg+'=val')
w.toto
'any value'
Generally speacking, using «exec» is not a very good practice.

Is there a smarter way to proceed ?

Arbiel
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Defining an object's argument whose name is stored in a variable - by arbiel - Dec-10-2020, 10:06 PM

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