Variable class instantiation

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Steven D'Aprano  <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
>thisModule = __import__(__name__)
>classToUse = thisModule.__dict__['C1']

Any reason to prefer this over:

classToUse = getattr(thisModule, 'C1')

? (I think, for a module, they should do exactly the same thing.
Personally, I prefer keeping explicit references to __special
names__ to a minimum.)

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