Question

Starting with a class like this:

class FooClass(object):
    @staticmethod
    def static_method(x):
        print x

normally, I would call the static method of the class with:

FooClass.static_method('bar')

Is it possible to invoke this static method having just the class name and the method name?

class_name = 'FooClass'
method_name = 'static_method'

Answer 1

You shouldn’t mess with locals() as suggested in other answers. If you have your classname as a string and need to resolve it, use registry of some sort. A dictionary will work fine. E.g.

class FooClass(object):
    @staticmethod
    def static_method(x):
        print x

registry = {'FooClass':FooClass}

(I assume you will want to add many more classes to this registry)

the lookup then becomes almost trivial:

getattr(registry['FooClass'], 'static_method')("bar")