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 n
One 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