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Re: [Beginner] Calling a function by its name in a string
From: Michael Hoffman <cam.ac.uk@mh391.invalid>
Date: Wed Jul 27 2005 - 20:37:52 CEST
Date: Wed Jul 27 2005 - 20:37:52 CEST
Tito wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> Is there a metalanguage capability in Python (I know there are many) to
> call a function having its name in a string?
>
> Something like:
> __call__("foo")
>
> instead of:
> foo()
locals()["foo"]() will be a little more predictable than eval("foo()").
-- Michael HoffmanReceived on Thu Sep 29 17:11:48 2005