I'm trying to do the following:
import sys; sys.path.append('/var/www/python/includes')
import functionname
x = 'testarg'
fn = "functionname"
func = getattr(fn, fn)
func (x)
but am getting an error:
"TypeError: getattr(): attribute name must be string"
I have tried this before calling getattr but it still doesn't work:
str(fn)
I don't understand why this is happening, any advice is appreciated
It sounds like you might be wanting locals() instead of getattr()...
x = 'testarg'
fn = "functionname"
func = locals()[fn]
func (x)
You should be using getattr when you have an object and you want to get an attribute of that object, not a variable from the local namespace.
functionname is a module, and you call it with a parameter?The first argument of getattr is the object that has the attribute you are interested in. In this case you are trying to get an attribute of the function, I assume. So the first argument should be the function. Not a string containing the function name, but the function itself.
If you want to use a string for that, you will need to use something like locals()[fn] to find the actual function object with that name.
Second, you're passing the function name to getattr twice. The function doesn't have itself as an attribute. Did you mean the second argument to be x? I don't really get what you're trying to do here, I guess.
getattrshould be an objectgetattr(x, fn)wherexis anything at all (that doesn't produce aSyntaxError;-) andfnis a string, will not produce the error you report. So, we know that's not what you're doing. It remains for you to show us what you are doing, in a version as simplified as you can make it and still reproduce that exact error message -- iffnis the second argument, I can tell you confidently that it cannot possibly be a string, but I can't guess how exactly you bungled things w/o seeing some code of yours;-).imports are totally irrelevant: the two lines that assignfnand callgetattr, if right next to each other, cannot possibly produce the error you say they produce.