Exec inside a class method to call other class methods?

[Matthew Dubins]

Hello all,

I have made a python script to upload contact information from an excel 
worksheet to an online database.  One part of the program that really 
tripped me up was when I wanted to call specific class methods that I 
had made to deal with specific types of contact information (Parent's 
name, Child's name, Phone #, etc).  My first thought was to make it easy 
using the exec statement. 

The code (a method within a class) looked like this:
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def parse(self, data, data_type)
    exec "self.__parse_%s(data)" % data_type
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The data_type variable contains strings that exactly match the spellings 
of the 2nd word in the titles of the class methods that I wanted to call 
for each data_type inputted into the parse function.  For some reason, 
*it didn't work*.  Alternately, I found the ugly code shown below to be 
functional.  As you can see, for each data_type, I call the 
corresponding class method that I've specified.  Please help me to 
transform my ugly functional code into concise functional code. :)

Thanks,
Matthew
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    def parse(self, data, data_type):
        if data_type == 'nocall':
            self.__parse_nocall(data)
        elif data_type == 'DOB':
            self.__parse_DOB(data)
        elif data_type == 'gender':
            self.__parse_gender(data)
        elif data_type == 'Prematurity':
            self.__parse_Prematurity(data)
        elif data_type == 'email':
            self.__parse_email(data)
        elif data_type == 'languages':
            self.__parse_languages(data)
        elif data_type == 'phone':
            self.__parse_phone(data)
        elif data_type == 'cname':
            self.__parse_cname(data)
        elif data_type == 'pname':
            self.__parse_pname(data)
        elif data_type == 'address':
            self.__parse_address(data)
        elif data_type == 'duedate':
            self.__parse_dudedate(data)