Can Python do this?

[Quinn Dunkan]

On 04 Mar 2002 12:41:50 -0800, Paul Rubin <phr-n2002a at nightsong.com> wrote:
>    x = my_class()                   # x is an instance of some class
>    method_name = "FuncCall" + "1"   # gives "FuncCall1"
>    method = getattr(x, method_name) # find the method
>    method (args)                    # call the method
>
>is preferable to using eval, if method_name is actually defined for
>my_class.  However, if method_name is only defined for some class that
>my_class inherits from, and not from my_class itself, then this won't
>work.

Really?

Python 2.0 (#1, Oct 25 2000, 13:33:13) 
[GCC 2.8.1] on irix6-n32
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>>> class A:
...  def m(self): pass
... 
>>> class B(A):
...  pass
... 
>>> a = B()
>>> a
<__main__.B instance at 100e3f14>
>>> a.m
<method A.m of B instance at 100e3f14>
>>> getattr(a, 'm')
<method A.m of B instance at 100e3f14>
>>> 

Or did you mean something else?