dynamic creating of class
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Sun Jun 22 19:29:09 EDT 2003
Marek "Baczek" Baczyñski wrote:
> You're calling a string. What you really want is
> # the pythonic way
> kind = B # bind kind to object under the name B
> run = kind()
> or
> # the ugly way, sometimes the only though
> kind = 'B'
> run = eval(kind)()
If what you think you have is simply a name, it's far better to turn
that name into an object by lookup in a dictionary (e.g., globals())
rather than eval'ing it, just on the off-chance that you don't in fact
have a simple name after all.
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