Probably a stupid question... name-->method lookup

[Joseph Andrew Knapka]

Donn Cave wrote:
> 
> Quoth Joseph Andrew Knapka <jknapka at earthlink.net>:
> | I have a method name (string) and a class object. I'd like to
> | be able to look up the the named unbound method of the class.
> | I know that TheClass.__dict__[<methodname>] will kinda
> | work, but it will fail if <methodname> is implemented only in
> | a base class of TheClass. I could do the Python method lookup
> | dance via __bases__ etc., but I'd be surprised if there weren't
> | already a standard function to do it.
> 
> getattr(inst, name)
> 
>         Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu

*This* is the answer I wanted. And to think I read
the "built-in functions" docs and completely
overlooked getattr() :-P

Thanks, everyone, for the help!

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