import importlib from typing import Type, TypeVar, cast C = TypeVar("C") def get_class(fqn: str, type: Type[C]) -> Type[C]: """Given a fully qualifed class name, import the module and return the class""" module_name, class_name = fqn.rsplit(".", 1) module = importlib.import_module(module_name) cls = getattr(module, class_name) return cast(Type[C], cls)