The IDL type any is mapped to the Python class CORBA.Any. The constructor for this class takes a typecode and a value that conforms to that type. The class also has two corresponding accessor methods typecode() and value().
e.g. Using the structure example from Section :
module Example { struct Foo { string bar; long baz; }; };
An Any containing an instance of the structure Foo can be constructed and used as follows:
>>> from Fnorb.orb import CORBA >>> import Example >>> # Create an instance of the structure. ... s = Example.Foo(`Hello', 123) >>> # Get the structure's typecode. ... tc = CORBA.typecode(`IDL:dstc.edu.au/Example/Foo:1.0') >>> # Now create the `Any'. ... a = CORBA.Any(tc, s) >>> a.typecode() <TypeCode.StructTypeCode instance at adc30> >>> a.value() <Example.Foo instance at adc60> >>>