django access model object fields on run-time

Question

Hi,

I have a list of fields for an object:

fields = ('title', 'first_name', 'last_name)

Now I want to access the fields of my object on runtime, without harcoding it like this.

myobject.title

What I'm searching for is something like this:

myobject.getFieldValue('title')

Is there a method like this in django? I did not find one.

Answer 1

Not a Django method, but a standard Python builtin:

getattr(myobject, 'title')

Answer 2

But if you can access the attribute of a object by something like this myobject.title, why do you want a manager (in case of a database query) or a function to do this?