Python - Access object attributes as in a dictionary

Question

>>> my_object.name = 'stuff'
>>> my_str = 'name'
>>> my_object[my_str] # won't work because it's not a dictionary :)

How can I access to the fields of my_object defined on my_str ?

Answer 1

You can provide support for the [] operator for objects of your class by defining a small family of methods - getitem and setitem, principally. See the next few entries in the docs for some others to implement, for full support.