Instantiating an object when the type is only known at runtime
Samuel
knipknap at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 18:19:31 EDT 2006
Thanks, that's what I was looking for.
> >>> m = __import__( "StringIO" )
> >>> x = getattr( m, "StringIO" )()
> >>> x
> <StringIO.StringIO instance at 0x00A47710>
> >>>
For the records: If the module is already loaded, this also works:
if my_type_is_not_yet_loaded:
module = __import__(type)
obj = getattr(module, type)
else:
obj = globals().get(type)
resource = obj(my_arg1, my_arg2)
Thanks again,
-Samuel
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