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

Other answers still stand, but now you can do this using Django's _meta.get_field().

test._meta.get_field('name')

Note that the Model _meta API has begun its official support and documentation as of 1.8, but has been distributed and used in prior versions before its official documentation.