Problem with getting an option value

[Larry Bates]

Lucas Malor wrote:
> Peter Otten wrote:
>> Lucas Malor wrote:
>>> The problem is options is an instance, so options."delete", for example,
>>> is wrong; I should pass options.delete . How can I do?
>> Use getattr():
> 
> Thank you. Do you know also if I can do a similar operation with functions? I want to select with a string a certain get() function of ConfigParser:
> 
> if   type == "int" :
>     funcname = "getint"
> elif type == "bool" :
>     funcname = "getboolean"
> etc.
> 
> How can I invoke the funcion with its name in a string?
> 
> PS: your answers had not arrived to my mail account. Is because I'm using a disposal address? Or simply it's because I'm not registered to the list?
> 
> 
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Use a dispatch dictionary:

dispatch={'int': getint,
          'bool': getboolean}

then call it:

dispatch(t)(*args)

Note: You should NOT use type as a variable name because it will shadow
the built-in type function.

-Larry