Interesting problem - can it be done

[Roman Suzi]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, 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
>
>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()

Hmmm... First of all, you have methods, not functions.
Second, where from are you getting function's
definitions?

In Python you can have list of functions (methods) like this:


funclist = [func1, func2, func3]

# and iterate thru it this way:
for f in funclist:
  # use function f here in some way
  f(testobj)

Anyway, I do not follow why keeping separate and symbolic
list of function. Maybe you can have that list as a
methods of testobj? Or do you want latest-possible binding?
Python is dynamic enough to implement any variant.


>Any help would be great.
>
>Thanks,
>    Mark Sass

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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