Merged the wxPy_newswig branch into the HEAD branch (main trunk)

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@24541 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775

wxPython/contrib/xrc/_xrc_ex.py

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+#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# The global was removed  in favor of static accessor functions.  This is for
+# backwards compatibility:
+
+TheXmlResource = XmlResource_Get()
+
+
+#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#  Create a factory for handling the subclass property of the object tag.
+
+
+def _my_import(name):
+    mod = __import__(name)
+    components = name.split('.')
+    for comp in components[1:]:
+        mod = getattr(mod, comp)
+    return mod
+
+
+class XmlSubclassFactory_Python(XmlSubclassFactory):
+    def __init__(self):
+        XmlSubclassFactory.__init__(self)
+
+    def Create(self, className):
+        assert className.find('.') != -1, "Module name must be specified!"
+        mname = className[:className.rfind('.')]
+        cname = className[className.rfind('.')+1:]
+        module = _my_import(mname)
+        klass = getattr(module, cname)
+        inst = klass()
+        return inst
+
+
+XmlResource_AddSubclassFactory(XmlSubclassFactory_Python())
+
+#----------------------------------------------------------------------------