How to access a field of a namedtuple using a variable for the field name?

Question

I can access elements of a named tuple by name as follows(*):

from collections import namedtuple
Car = namedtuple(\'Car\', \'color mileage\')
my_car = Car(\'         


        

Answer 1

Another way of accessing them can be:

field_idx = my_car._fields.index(field)
my_car[field_idx]

Extract index of the field and then use it to index the namedtuple.