Accessing function in a module by name

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Thu Jun 7 00:32:23 EDT 2007


Tobiah wrote:
> Is there a way to call function in an imported
> module having only the name?
...
> I'm trying to set up a function dispatcher for a
> SOAP server.

    Bad idea.  This exposes all the functions of the
module to calls from the outside world.  Big security hole.

    In any case, SOAP servers should have a separate object for
each connection, or the thing will mess up if two requests
are made at the same time.

    See

	http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-pyth5/

				John Nagle



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