Call a classmethod on a variable class name

[Matthew Keene]

Arnaud Delobelle wrote:

> 
> If your class lives in the current global namespace, you can get it
> with
> 
>     >>> cls = globals()[classname]
> 
> Then you can access its .bar() method directly:
> 
>     >>> cls.bar()
> 
> Example:
> 
> >>> class Foo(object):
> ...     @classmethod
> ...     def bar(cls): print 'Oh my Baz!'
> ...
> >>> globals()['Foo']
> <class '  main  .Foo'>
> >>> globals()['Foo'].bar()
> Oh my Baz!
> 
> If your class lives in a module, just do getattr(module, classname)
> instead to get the class object.
> 
> HTH
> 
> 

Yes, that feels much nicer and works well.

Thanks for the prompt reply !