On 12/11/2009 8:26 PM, Jan Mach wrote:
Hi everybody, I am currently solving the following problem and I am stuck. I am trying to create instance of the class of variable name. I know, that the following works:if (something): classToUse = C1 else: classToUse = C2 o = classToUse() ,but this is not what I want. I need to have the class name in the string and then instantiate it: (this does not work of course) classToUse = "C1" o = classToUse() It is because I don`t know at the moment what the name of the class will be, I will load it from the file or pass it as argument. Does anyone know what is the correct syntax to accomplish this?
Make a dict of name->class, otherwise it's a security issue. A malicious user may pass a class you never wish to instantiate (with eval, it's even worse, malicious user can execute arbitrary code).
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