Create object name from string value?

[Tim Chase]

Gnarlodious wrote:
>> for name in ["object1", "object2", "object3"]:
>>     d = {name: classname()}
>>     print d[name]
> 
> This works! However I end up saying:
> 
> d['Server'].Config.BaseURL
> 
> to get the data, when I should be saying:
> 
> Server.Config.BaseURL

It sounds like you want a mapping of strings to class objects 
(not instances), so you can do something like

   mapping = {
     "object1": object1,
     "object2": some_module.object2,
     "object3": other_module.namespace.object3,
     }

   MyClass = mapping["object1"]
   server = MyClass(initialization_params)
   # the above two lines can be written as
   # server = mapping["object1"](init_params)
   print server.Config.BaseURL


-tkc