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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
