get PyObject* knowing its string name

[Robert Kern]

On 2010-01-29 11:00 AM, Mr.M wrote:
> I think this sounds like a stupid question, but I searched the C/Api doc
> and google but I wasn't able to find any hint:
>
> how can I retrive PyObject pointer if I only know it's name?
>
> What I'd like to do is something like this:
>
> [code]
> PyObject* obj = PyFindWhatImLookingFor("w.z.y.x");
> [/code]
>
> Of course if I know that w is a module, z is a class and so on I can
> search w dictionary than z members than...
>
> But I wonder if there is a way to retrive without knowing what w.z.y.x
> means.

There is probably a clever/careful way to do it, but most systems that do this 
just separate the package/module parts from the object parts:

   "w:z.y.x"

Import the module part, then getattr() your way down the object part.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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