[Tutor] Creating an object with a string

[Martin Hjort Eriksen]

I am parsing an XML file, and based on certain tags, i want to create 
certain objects. During the parsing i generate a string, with which i 
determine what type of object I want to create. The simple way is to 
have som if statements to determine it, but I was wondering if there is 
not a more "smart" method. I also do lot of PHP programming, where it is 
possible to do:

<?php
$object = "ClassToCreate";

$newObject = new $object();

?>

In that way I am able to with very few lines, to create an object based 
on a string. Is there any way of doing something similar in Python?

regards

Martin Hjort Eriksen