En Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:11:19 -0200, kramer31 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> Can anyone tell me if there is a way in python that I can implement a > factory function which takes as input a string ClassName and returns > an object of type ClassName? def InstanceFactory(classname): cls = globals()[classname] return cls() If the class resides in a different module: def InstanceFactory(modulename, classname): if '.' in modulename: raise ValueError, "can't handle dotted modules yet" mod = __import__(modulename) cls = getattr(mod, classname] return cls() I suppose you get the names from a configuration file or something - usually it's better to just pass the class instead of the class name. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list