*drawcode » introspection http://blog.drawcode.com creative engineering, design and development Sat, 23 May 2009 19:51:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Dynamically Loading Classes in Python using Reflection/Inspection w/ Inspect Module http://blog.drawcode.com/2009/03/03/dynamically-loading-classes-in-python-using-reflectioninspection-w-inspect-module/ http://blog.drawcode.com/2009/03/03/dynamically-loading-classes-in-python-using-reflectioninspection-w-inspect-module/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:31:58 +0000 drawk http://blog.drawcode.com/?p=15 Python is a dynamic language that you can pretty much use for anything. One area that is pretty common is loading up a dynamic class. Let’s say you get back a list of classes and you want to initialize one into an object and use it. You can use the script below to load in a python class from introspection.

    classname = "ClassToLookFor"
    the_module = __import__("my.module", globals(), locals(), [classname])
    the_class = getattr(the_module, classname)
    obj = the_class()

More on introspection in Python (sometimes called Reflection in other languages like C# and Java):

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