To load a module dynamically and create an object from a string:

import importlib modulename, dot, classname = "pkg.your_module.ClassName".rpartition('.') module = importlib.import_module(modulename) klass = getattr(module, classname) instance = klass() 

If in the forehead, I would do this:

testClass.py

 class TestClass(object): def __init__(self): self.name = "Hello, TestClass!" 

testImport.py

 moduleName = "testClass" className = "TestClass" exec("from " + moduleName + " import " + className) exec("fileObject =" + className + "()") print fileObject.name 

Test

 >>> python testImport.py >>> Hello, TestClass! 

But this trash code, IMHO. In general, I would look at other implementations, I thought many times to write a system of plug-ins for my program.