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

If you just want to pass a class to a function, so that this function can create new instances of that class, just treat the class like any other value you would give as a parameter:

def printinstance(someclass):
  print someclass()

Result:

>>> printinstance(list)
[]
>>> printinstance(dict)
{}