Dictionary with classes?

Question

In Python is it possible to instantiate a class through a dictionary?

shapes = {\'1\':Square(), \'2\':Circle(), \'3\':Triangle()}

x = shapes[raw_input()]
         


        

Answer 1

Almost. What you want is

shapes = {'1':Square, '2':Circle, '3':Triangle} # just the class names in the dict

x = shapes[raw_input()]() # get class from dict, then call it to create a shape instance.