Invoking a method by name?

[Magnus Therning]

I need to call a method of an object where I only have the name of the
method in a string. I have found one way, but I am not sure, maybe there
is a more beautiful way to accomplish it?

This is some example code:

  import inspect
  
  class test1:
      def test(self):
          print 'test'
  
  class test2(test1):
      def test(self):
          print 'extended test'
          
  def isrightfunc(name):
      return lambda(x): inspect.ismethod(x) and x.__name__ == name
  
  a = test1()
  b = test2()
  
  inspect.getmembers(a, isrightfunc('test'))[0][1]()
  inspect.getmembers(b, isrightfunc('test'))[0][1]()

Of course the output is the expected one:

  test
  extended test

Thankful for all pointers.

/M

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