Dynamic creation of an object instance of a class by name

[Peter Otten]

Andre Meyer wrote:

> Right, ok, well, I do not assume to know what classes can be instantiated,
> thus anything like accessing globals() is not likely to help, sorry. The
> eval() version works pretty ok so far. I am develpoing a module of which
> other people can make use of by developing their own subclasses, but they
> need to be instantiated by my code. Eval() does the trick for me or is
> there a better way, assuming you do not need to know which class it might
> be beforehand? btw I LOVE dynamicity... ;-)

You have to pass the name of the subclasses to your module somehow for your
code to know what to instantiate. Why don't you pass the subclasses
themselves instead?

Peter