Hi Have a look at Expando as a base class for starters. http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/expandoclass.html
And also you should avoid using exec/eval, use setattr and getattr http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#setattr e.g. setattr(myobj,'my_property_name',some_value) - have a Rgds T On Apr 7, 10:31 pm, J <j.si...@earlystageit.com> wrote: > I need to assign a value to a Model property but its name is not known > until runtime. For illustrative purposes, say > > class Story(db.Model): > title = db.StringProperty() > body = db.TextProperty() > > s = Story(title="The Three Little Pigs") > > Since I wanted to decide on the property name at runtime, I wrote: > cmd = 's.%s = %s' % ('body', '"Once upon a time..."') > exec(cmd) > > I shouldn't have to use exec. There has to be a better way of > assigning values to properties. > > Any suggestions? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
