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The setattr() assigns a value to an attributes of an object, getattr() returns the attribute of an object, delattr() deletes it.
setattr(car, "speed", 320) # the same as: car.speed = 320 getattr( car, "speed") # the same as: car.speed delattr( car, "speed") # the same as: del car.speed