Question

Let’s say I have this :

class whatever(object):
   def __init__(self):
      pass

and this function:

def create_object(type_name):
   # create an object of type_name

I’d like to be able to call the create_object like this:

inst = create_object(whatever)

and get back an instance of whatever. I think this should be doable without using eval, I’d like to know how to do this. Please notice that I’m NOT using a string as a parameter for create_object.

Answer 1

The most obvious way:

def create_object(type_name):
    return type_name()