Creating an Instance of a Class with a variable in Python

Question

I\'m trying to create a game for my little sister. It is a Virtual Pet sort of thing and the Pet has toys to play with.

I created a class Toy and want t

Answer 1

Given your edit i assume you have the class name as a string and want to instantiate the class? Just use a dictionary as a dispatcher.

class Foo(object):
    pass

class Bar(object):
    pass

dispatch_dict = {"Foo": Foo, "Bar": Bar}
dispatch_dict["Foo"]() # returns an instance of Foo