calling a method using a variable name?

[Erik Max Francis]

Alan McIntyre wrote:

> How about this:
> 
> myMethod = 'method'
> myCall = 'z=X.'+myMethod+'()'
> exec(myCall)

Better yet, use getattr:

	getattr(X, myMethod)(...)

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