How to change which class variable is being called depending on user input?

Question

I've created a class called Earthquake which stores relevant earthquake data (its magnitude, time it hit, etc.) in class variables. I want to ask the user which data they'd like to see, then print out that data for them like so:

earthquake1 = Earthquake()

answer = input("What data would you like to see?")
print(earthquake1.answer)

In the example above, if the user answers magnitude, I want to print out the class variable earthquake1.magnitude.

Is there some way of doing this?

Answer 1

Just use getattr:

earthquake1 = Earthquake()

answer = input("What data would you like to see?")
print(getattr(earthquake1, answer))