Python class instantiation using name
Aahz
aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Dec 18 12:13:00 EST 2002
In article <mailman.1040161163.380.python-list at python.org>,
Amol P Dharmadhikari <ad at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:
>
>So in general, if I have a string which contains the name of a class,
>how do I create an instance of that class?
>
>i.e. something similar to what the below java code snippet can do
>Object o = java.lang.Class.forName(className).newInstance()
Given a module M and a class M.C:
import M
instance = getattr(M, "C")()
This should be faster than the eval() solutions proposed.
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