I have the need to take a string argument and create an object of the class named in that string in Python. In Java, I would use Class.forName().newInstance(). Is there an equivalent in Python?
I recently compared the processing speeds of [] and list() and was surprised to discover that [] runs more than three times faster than list(). I ran the same test with {} and dict() and the results were practically identical: [] and {} both took around 0.128sec / million cycles, while list() and dict() took roughly 0.428sec / million cycles each.
Is there a way to circumvent the constructor __init__ of a class in python?