django object get/set field

Question

Can I get the value of an object field some other way than obj.field? Does something like obj.get('field') exist? Same thing for setting the value of the field.

Answer 1

To get the value of a field:

getattr(obj, 'field_name')

To set the value of a field:

setattr(obj, 'field_name', 'field value')

To get all the fields and values for a Django object:

[(field.name, getattr(obj,field.name)) for field in obj._meta.fields]

You can read the documentation of Model _meta API which is really useful.