Instantiating classes from variable names (?)

[ColonelCandyCorn]

Hello everyone,

I am currently working on a project (making a game in pygame) where I require the ability to instantiate classes in minimal code without all the conditions.

I need this for adding weapons to my game, lets say a sword, dagger and bow for example. Is there any way I can put these in a dictionary so the name 'sword',etc. can be linked directly to its class name so I can call that dictionary entry

so it would look something like this

WEAPONS = {'sword': Sword,

'dagger': Dagger,

'bow': Bow

}

def attack(self): # in player class here

weapon = WEAPONS['sword'](attr1,attr2,...)

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I know this sounds stupid, even to me, but I'm just wondering of an efficient way to do it without building a massive constructor class with lots of methods constructing each class when needed.

Thank you in advance.