Importing a class without knowing the module

[Franck PEREZ]

I thought about it, but it would make the XML file depend on the
machine... no more portability...

On 11/18/05, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> Franck PEREZ <franck.perez at gmail.com> writes:
> > ########### My test application ############
> > class Foo(object):
> >   #The class I'd like to serialize
> >   pass
> >
> > import myMarshaller
> > foo = Foo()
> > s = myMarshaller.dumps(foo) #works fine, spits something like <object
> > class = "Foo"...>
> > another_foo = loads(s) #fails, see below
> >
> > ########### My marshaller (in its own module) ############
> > def loads(s):
> >   #First, get class name (here "Foo")
> >   klass = eval(className) #fails because "Foo" is not in the
> > marshaller's namespace !
> >
> > How could I tell the marshaller to locate the Foo class and any other
> > class I try to deserialize ?
>
> How about adding Foo.__file__ to the serialized data?
>
>     <mike
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