To answer my own question models are executed and not imported so are already in the globals namespace.
Therefore instead of using getattr one can use: globals()[tablename]() On Oct 8, 5:57 pm, apple <simo...@gmail.com> wrote: > tableclass=getattr(tableclasses, tablename) > > Works fine when tableclasses is in modules but not when it is in > models - says "global name tableclasses is not defined". > > Is it possible to access by name a class defined in models?
