Setting a class attribute with a given name in python while defining the class

Question

I am trying to do something like this:

property = \'name\'
value = Thing()
class A:
  setattr(A, property, value)
  other_thing = \'normal attribute\'

  def __i         


        

Answer 1

This may be because the class A is not fully initialized when you do your setattr(A, p, v) there.

The first thing to try would be to just move the settattr down to after you close the class block and see if that works, e.g.

class A(object):
    pass


setattr(A, property, value)

Otherwise, that thing Ignacio just said about metaclasses.