Question

I have a string like this:

classname = "Recipe"

Now I have a module “contenttype.py” and I want to do something like this:

import contenttype
myobject = contenttype.__getobject__(classname)(param=value)

Is there something similar to getattribute to be used in module’s top level?

I know I can do it with exec() but I am trying to avoid this.

Thanks

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EDIT:

I found a way, but I am not convinced that it is good.

import inspect 
myobject = dict(inspect.getmembers(contenttype))[classname](param=value)

Answer 1

A module is just an object, so yes, you can use __getattribute__ on it.

But you don’t want to call __getattribute__ directly, that’s an implementation detail. For accessing named attributes on objects, including module members, use getattr().

getattr(contenttype, classname)(param= value)