Interesting problem - can it be done

[Johan Jonkers]

Mark Sass wrote:

> Hi all,
>     I have a list of strings and the strings are functions that I want to
> call on an object.  How do I call the functions without hardcoding the
> function call?  Here is an example
> 
> funclist = ['func1()', 'func2()', 'func3()']
> x = len(funclist)
> y = 0
> while y < x:
>     value = testobj.funclist[y]
>     y = y +1
> 
funclist = ['func1', 'func2', 'func3']
for func in funclist:
        exec('value = testobj.%(func)s()' % locals())
        print value

This will iterate the the list of functions and will call them and store 
the return value in the variable called 'value', which can be used as a 
regular variable after the exec-call

> This way I could grow the list of functions to be called without coding
> more like the way I am doing it now. I would like to avoid doing the
> following:
> 
> value = testobj.func1()
> value = testobj.func2()
> value = testobj.func3()
> 
> Any help would be great.
> 
> Thanks,
>     Mark Sass
> 
Johan Jonkers