Can you create a class from a string name

[Alex Martelli]

Anna wrote:
        ...
> def factory(aClass, *args):
>     return apply(aClass,args)

Note that this needs aClass to be a class object, not a class name.  And
in today's Python, apply's rather redundant -- the body of this factory
function might just as well be:

    return aClass(*args)

since the * form can now be applied on calling, symmetrically to its
application in def (it expands any sequence of arguments).  So you might
equally well define, in modern Python:

factory = aClass


Alex