I can access elements of a named tuple by name as follows(*):
from collections import namedtuple
Car = namedtuple('Car', 'color mileage')
my_car = Car('red', 100)
print my_car.color
But how can I use a variable to specify the name of the field I want to access? E.g.
field = 'color'
my_car[field] # doesn't work
my_car.field # doesn't work
My actual use case is that I'm iterating through a pandas dataframe with for row in data.itertuples()
. I am doing an operation on the value from a particular column, and I want to be able to specify the column to use by name as a parameter to the method containing this loop.
(*) example taken from here. I am using Python 2.7.