Creating Classes Dynamically?

Christian Tismer tismer at tismer.com
Thu Apr 20 13:03:12 EDT 2000


Jerome Chan wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to create an object of a class from a string?

Yes, you can use exec on the string if it evaluates as a call
to the class.
If you don't want to use exec, you also have the option to use the
new module. Import it and read the doc strings.

ciao - chris

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