dynamic class/module use? (like Java's forName)
Alex Hunsley
lard at tardis.ed.ac.molar.uk
Sat Jul 17 22:33:51 EDT 2004
Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <_OdKc.29430$v7.8250 at fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
> Alex Hunsley <lard at tardis.ed.ac.molar.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>Does python provide a way to dynamically use modules and/or classes?
>>I'm thinking in the vein of Java's Class.forName.
>
>
> Just out of curiosity, why do you want to do that?
>
p.s. to my last response:
I've just read Robert Brewer's reply, and to rephrase myself as I to
him: I'm trying to do the strategy pattern in a modular fashion. (i.e.
no big string of 'ifs' and hardcoded actions.)
alex
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