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Re: How do i instantiate a class_name passed via cmd line

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On 14Feb2016 10:10, Veek. M <vek.m1234@gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm writing a price parser. I need to do the equivalent of perl's
>$$var to instantiate a class where $car is the class_name.
>
>I'm passing 'Ebay' or 'Newegg' or 'Amazon' via cmd-line. I have a module
>named ebay.py and a class called Ebay (price parser). I do something
>like:
>
>\> main.py ebay motherboard
>
>and this does:
> module = __import__(module_name)
>but now i need to instantiate the class - right now I do:
> instance = module.Ebay(module_name, product)
>
>how do i replace the 'Ebay' bit with a variable so that I can load any
>class via cmd line.
>
>class Load(object):
>    def __init__(self, module_name, product):
>        try:
>            module = __import__(module_name)
>            instance = module.Ebay(module_name, product)
>        except ImportError:
>            print("Can't find module %s" % module_name)

Ebay = geattr(module, 'Ebay')

or

klass = getattr(module, module_name.capitalize())
instance = klass(module_name, product)

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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How do i instantiate a class_name passed via cmd line "Veek. M" <vek.m1234@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 10:10 +0530
  Re: How do i instantiate a class_name passed via cmd line Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-02-13 21:31 -0800
    Re: How do i instantiate a class_name passed via cmd line "Veek. M" <vek.m1234@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 11:09 +0530
      Re: How do i instantiate a class_name passed via cmd line Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2016-02-13 21:55 -0800
  Re: How do i instantiate a class_name passed via cmd line Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-02-14 18:41 +1300
    Re: How do i instantiate a class_name passed via cmd line "Veek. M" <vek.m1234@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 11:21 +0530
    Re: How do i instantiate a class_name passed via cmd line Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-02-14 14:48 +0100
  Re: How do i instantiate a class_name passed via cmd line Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2016-02-14 16:20 +1100

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