Re: dynamic class instantiation

Ognen Duzlevski wrote:
I have a parser that will go through the language definition file and produce the following as a separate .py file:

class page(object):
	def __init__():
		self.name = None
		self.caption = None
		self.functions = []

Say I got "page" as a string. How do I go about instantiating a class from this piece of information? To make it more obvious how do I create the page() class based on the "page" string I have? 

Use getattr().

If the definition of page is in my_objects.py, and that file is on the Python search path, you can use
import my_module
cls = getattr(my_module, 'path')
instance = cls()

to create an instance of my_module.path.

Kent
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