indirect assignment question

[Andy Baxter]

Hi,

I have some lines of code which currently look like this:

self.window = self.wTree.get_widget("mainWindow")
self.outputToggleMenu = self.wTree.get_widget("menuitem_output_on")
self.outputToggleButton =
self.wTree.get_widget("button_toggle_output")
self.logView = self.wTree.get_widget("textview_log")
self.logScrollWindow = self.wTree.get_widget("scrolledwindow_log")

and I would like (for tidiness / compactness's sake) to replace them
with something like this:
widgetDic = {
"mainWindow": self.window,
"menuitem_output_on": self.outputToggleMenu,
"button_toggle_output": self.outputToggleButton,
"textview_log": self.logView,
"scrolledwindow_log": self.logScrollWindow
}
for key in widgetDic:
... set the variable in dic[key] to point to
self.wTree.get_widget(key) somehow

what I need is some kind of indirect assignment where I can assign to a
variable whose name is referenced in a dictionary value.

Is there a way of doing this in python?

thanks,

andy baxter

 

[Thomas Rachel]

Am 17.05.2011 07:13 schrieb Andy Baxter:

self.window = self.wTree.get_widget("mainWindow")
self.outputToggleMenu = self.wTree.get_widget("menuitem_output_on")
self.outputToggleButton = self.wTree.get_widget("button_toggle_output")
self.logView = self.wTree.get_widget("textview_log")
self.logScrollWindow = self.wTree.get_widget("scrolledwindow_log")

and I would like (for tidiness / compactness's sake) to replace them
with something like this:
widgetDic = {
"mainWindow": self.window,
"menuitem_output_on": self.outputToggleMenu,
"button_toggle_output": self.outputToggleButton,
"textview_log": self.logView,
"scrolledwindow_log": self.logScrollWindow
}
for key in widgetDic:
... set the variable in dic[key] to point to self.wTree.get_widget(key)
somehow

assignmap = (
('mainWindow', 'window'),
('menuitem_output_on', 'outputToggleMenu'),
('button_toggle_output', 'outputToggleButton'),
('textview_log', 'logView'),
('scrolledwindow_log', 'logScrollWindow'),
)
for name, selfname in assignmap:
val = widgetDic[name] = self.wTree.get_widget(name)
setattr(self, selfname, val)


HTH,

Thomas