import datetime
class Thing(object): pass
prop = Thing()
prop.foo = datetime.datetime.now()
attribute = "foo"
a = getattr(prop, attribute)
key = a
if isinstance(a, datetime.datetime):
print "yes, it is a datetime"
key = str(a.year) + str(a.month)
print key
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