call method by name?

[Chris Ryland]

andreyw at mailandnews.com (andreyw) wrote in message news:<76d5d34e.0201241512.1981f173 at posting.google.com>...
> How to say this in Python?
> 
> method_name = 'method1'
> a. at method_name()

The brute force obvious approach (there may be cleaner ways):

>>> class A:
...  def m():
...    print "m here"
...
>>> mn = "m"
>>> a = A()
>>> a.__class__.__dict__[mn]()
m here
>>>

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Cheers!
Chris Ryland, Em Software