[Zope3-Users] Convert from string to class

[Marc Rijken]

Hi Florian,

This function will do the job:

def translateDottedName(i):
    names = i.split('.')
   
    module = __import__('.'.join(names[:-1]), {}, {}, ['*'])
    return getattr(module, names[-1])

Marc


Florian Lindner wrote:

>Hello,
>I've a string like "zope.app.folder.Folder" and I want to get the class 
>zope.app.folder.Folder from this string. How can I do that?
>It's probably more a python problem that Zope... but I hope you excuse.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Florian
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