On 13/11/2012 09:36, Dave Angel wrote:
On 11/13/2012 01:38 AM, Some Developer wrote:
I'm trying to find a way to get a string of the module path of a class.
So for instance say I have class Foo and it is in a module called
my.module. I want to be able to get a string that is equal to this:
"my.module.Foo". I'm aware of the __repr__ method but it does not do
what I want it to do in this case.
Can anyone offer any advice at all?
So you have:
import my.module
theclass = my.module.Foo
print tellme(theClass)
and you want to know how to write tellme? Why not just change it to
take a string, and pass it "my.module.Foo" ?
If you have stored the class away somewhere, and want to figure it out
from there, you could look at the __module__ attribute. that'll tell
you the module name, but not the class name.
If you're really asking how to get that string from an INSTANCE of the
class, then try the __class__ attribute of that instance.
I'm actually writing a dynamic importer.
Basically when the program starts it queries all the loaded modules for
a certain package. It then stores the module and class information in a
database and then when a certain view is called the specific data
required is loaded by calling importlib.import_module('module.class').
This then populates the view with the required data.
Basically the idea is to be able to display any data required without
having to tightly couple the view code to a specific model type.
Thanks for the help.
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