Access Django model's fields using a string instead of dot syntax?

Question

In Django, I can do this:

test = Test.objects.get(id=1)
test.name

I want to be able to access the properties using dynamically generated st

Answer 1

Assuming name is an attribute on your instance test getattr(test, 'name') should return the corresponding value. Or test.__dict__['name'].

You can read more about getattr() here: http://effbot.org/zone/python-getattr.htm