running a random function

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <1654405.LVbK4P6cM3 at teancum>, David Bear wrote:

> I would like to write some code that would randomly select a function from a
> list of functions and call it. I was looking in the globals names space and
> randomly selecting items that were of type function.. but I didn't see a
> way of actually running the function.

If you have a function or callable you call it with the "call operator",
which are parenthesis:

In [8]: int
Out[8]: <type 'int'>

In [9]: int()
Out[9]: 0

For a random selection of an element from a list look at the
`random.choice()` function.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch