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? ...

... Actually Python didn't have a boolean type for a long time (as in old C), and some programmers still use integers instead of booleans. share | improve this answer | follow ...

...ttention. I'll look into it. It is possible that it has already been found and fixed. share | improve this answer | follow | ...

... There are two ways to handle these kind of cases in pytest: Using pytest.raises function Using pytest.mark.xfail decorator As the documentation says: Using pytest.raises is likely to be better for cases where you are testing exceptions your ow...

... No problem. btw, if muhuk is right and it's a list of Django objects, you should consider his solution. However, for the general case of sorting objects, my solution is probably best practice. – Triptych Dec 31 '08 at 17:...

... Summary: One option is, as suggested by jpic and sgallen in the comments, to add .filter() for each category. Each additional filter adds more joins, which should not be a problem for small set of categories. There is the aggregation approach. This query would be short...

Is the list of Python reserved words and builtins available in a library? I want to do something like: 1 Answer ...

I have been studying Python, and I read a chapter which describes the None value, but unfortunately this book isn't very clear at some points. I thought that I would find the answer to my question, if I share it there. ...

I have seen and used nested functions in Python, and they match the definition of a closure. So why are they called nested functions instead of closures ? ...

How do you determine what version of the C++ standard is implemented by your compiler? As far as I know, below are the standards I've known: ...