how to cast an instance id

Darrell dgallion1 at yahoo.com
Tue Sep 17 12:42:09 EDT 2002


class foo:
    def info(self):
        print self

a = foo()
a.info()
ccc = "%s()"%( str(a.__class__).split(".")[-1], )
eval(ccc).info()
exec("b=%s"%ccc)
b.info()

<__main__.foo instance at 0x00767378>
<__main__.foo instance at 0x007673B0>
<__main__.foo instance at 0x007673B0>

--Darrell

Eric Texier <erict at millfilm.co.uk> wrote in message news:<3D86E888.90AF569 at millfilm.co.uk>...
> It there a way to create a new reference of  an object
> from the string representation of its id?
> Thanks for any help.
>



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