How to instatiate a class of which the name is only known at runtime?

[Erik Max Francis]

John Roth wrote:

> As Nick said, you can use the exec statement. You can
> also use the _import() function.

>>> _import
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name '_import' is not defined

Do you mean __import__?

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