getattr() on nested functions?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Gabriel Rossetti a écrit :
> Terry Reedy wrote:
(snip)
>> Unlike the class approach, this requires recreating the constant 
>> functions and dict with each call to _test.  Quick to write but a bit 
>> 'dirty', in my opinion.  Another standard idiom is to set up the 
>> constants outside the function:
>>
>> def request(params):
>>     pass
>> def submit(params, values):
>>     pass
>> def update(params, values):
>>     pass
>> def delete(params):
>>     pass
>> dispatch = {'request':request, 'submit':submit, 'update':update, 
>> 'delete':delete}
>>
>> def _test(self, action, *args):
>>     return resultToXmo(dispatch[action](*args))
> 
> That's how I had done it originally (before the use of eval()), but in 
> this case also, since the functions are still nested, 

Uh ??? You probably want to re-read the above code snippet.