So if you have a job in software, you've probably dealt with this scenario before. Your company goes through a round of layoffs to better match expenses with revenue. A valid and sometimes necessary business decision. BUT, if you rewind the clock back to when all the decision makers were making their optimistic predictions about how much money the company was going to make,  they were guessing, perhaps using some data points, some analysis and research but when it gets down to it they were guessing.

At the company where I am currently employed, we are facing challenges just like everyone else in relation to a drastically shrinking revenue stream with no encouraging sign of a reversing trend anytime soon.

Given all that, it boggles me why some money is spent on software where there's a free/cheaper alternative.

I have seen plenty of recipes for this on the net, but nothing that would suit my needs so I made a few functions which may prove useful to others.....

But first, here's what I ideally needed. Basically I'm working on an application that stores a package qualified class name for a data handler type object in the database.

For example...

package.subpackage.module.TheClass

And at runtime, I want my data object to just return an initialized one ready to use.

[f.get_handler() for f in fields]