Adding a user supplied property (at runtime) to an instance of Expando class in Google App Engine?

Question

By creating datastore models that inherit from the Expando class I can make my model-entities/instances have dynamic properties. That is great! But what I want is the names of t

Answer 1

Just found the solution to my own question. It was really simple but as I am a python noob I ended up posting the question that you see above.

For the code sample that I had used, this is what needs to be done:

entity_two.__setattr(some_variable, some_value) #where some_variable is populated by user at runtime :)

Answer 2

Usually, we use the setattr function directly.

setattr( entity_two, 'some_variable', some_value )