initialising a class by name

[Krishnakant]

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 00:39 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Krishnakant <krmane at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 00:20 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote:
> >> Aside from Steven's excellent idea, to use the getattr() technique
> >> with your module scheme you'd probably also need to use __import__()
> >> to dynamically import the right module.
> >>
> > I would generally import all the modules I would need at the top of the
> > main module.
> > then would use getattr(module,class_name) will that work?
> 
> Yes, that is how you'd do it in that case.
> 
By the way, is there a kind of global list of modules/classes which are
maintained in a package once the program is loaded into memory?
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

> Cheers,
> Chris
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