Building a function call? (update)

[Scott David Daniels]

Francois De Serres wrote:
> Francois De Serres wrote:
>> Having a string: "dothat"
>> and a tuple: (x, y)
>> 1. What's the best way to build a function call like: dothat(x,y)?
>>
>> Assuming dothat is def'd in the same module,
>> 2. is: eval("dothat(x,y)", None, (('x', 100), ('y', 200)))
>> the right way to have it executed?

You do know that you could do something like:
      result = eval('dothat')(100, 200)

That is, eval of the function name gives you a function.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org