Trouble accessing class attributes in Python

Question

I have a route in flask that I'm using to pass numerous variables into my function via http. Everything is coming in fine except for the "biz" variable. Here is my function...

@app.route("/sendcheck/<name>/<address_object>/<amount>/<memo>/<biz>", methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def create_check(name, address_object, amount, memo, biz):
    check = lob.Check.create(
        description = 'Check for {}'.format(name),
        to_address = address_object,
        from_address = biz.address,
        bank_account = biz.bank,
        amount = amount,
        memo = memo,
        logo = open(biz_0.logo, 'rb'),
        check_bottom = '<h1 style="padding-top:4in;">{{name}}, attached is your check', #add a custom bottom
        data = {
          'name': name
        }
    )

The biz variable accesses a class with various attributes. So if the value for the variable is biz_1 then inputting biz.address should be same as biz_1.address but it doesn't work. I'm getting...

AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'address'

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

It's far from ideal but this is how I solved it. I'm open to suggestions.

@app.route("/sendcheck/<name>/<address_object>/<amount>/<memo>/<biz>", methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def create_check(name, address_object, amount, memo, biz):
    if biz == 'biz_0':
        biz = biz_0
    elif biz == 'biz_1':
        biz = biz_1
    elif biz == 'biz_2':
        biz = biz_2
    elif biz == 'biz_3':
        biz = biz_3
    check = lob.Check.create(
        description = 'Check for {}'.format(name),
        to_address = address_object,
        from_address = biz.address,
        bank_account = biz.bank,
        amount = amount,
        memo = memo,
        logo = open(biz_0.logo, 'rb'),
        check_bottom = '<h1 style="padding-top:4in;">{{name}}, attached is your check', #add a custom bottom
        data = {
          'name': name
        }
    )