make order of function definitions irrelevant

[Joerg Schuster]

Hello,

according to

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2001-July/007246.html

the order of function definitions does matter in python. Does anyone
know a trick to avoid this? Is there a way to "declare" functions
without defining them?

(Making the order of function definitions irrelevant would be useful
for automatically generated python scripts.)


Jörg