Lexical cast from string to type

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I like using locate, which works on built-in types:

>>> from pydoc import locate
>>> locate('int')
<type 'int'>
>>> t = locate('int')
>>> t('1')
1

…as well as anything it can find in the path:

>>> locate('datetime.date')
<type 'datetime.date'>
>>> d = locate('datetime.date')
>>> d(2015, 4, 23)
datetime.date(2015, 4, 23)

…including your custom types:

>>> locate('mypackage.model.base.BaseModel')
<class 'mypackage.model.base.BaseModel'>
>>> m = locate('mypackage.model.base.BaseModel')
>>> m()
<mypackage.model.base.BaseModel object at 0x1099f6c10>

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