There's no available function that takes a fully qualified class name and returns the class. However we can define a function that has this functionality.
Example
The following code is of such a function.
def get_class( s ):
parts = s.split('.')
module = ".".join(parts[:-1])
n = __import__( module )
for comp in parts[1:]:
n = getattr(m, comp)
return nOne usage example of that function
import datetime
def get_class( cls ):
parts = cls.split('.')
module = ".".join(parts[:-1])
m = __import__( module )
for comp in parts[1:]:
m = getattr(m, comp)
return m
print get_class('datetime.datetime').now()Output
This gives the output
2018-01-23 14:04:09.843000