I'm not sure what a visual object is, but to create an instance of an object whose name is known, you can use "eval":
>>> oname = 'list' >>> obj = eval(oname)() >>> obj [] >>> type(obj) <type 'list'> Hope that helps! On 26/07/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to generate visual python objects from django objects and > therefore have objects called 'Ring' and 'Cylinder' as django objects > and I want to create objects of those names in visual. > I can cludge it in varius ways by using dir and lots of if lookups but > is there a way of doing this that allows the name to generate a > visual object of the appropriate name or fail nicely if the visual > object doesn't exist? > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
