[portland] Dictionary To Switch Contexts

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:

> Here's a simplified example of how that might work... hope this helps:
> ----
> def doA():
>    pass
>
> def doB():
>    pass
>
> switcher = {
>    'a': doA,
>    'b': doB
>    }
>
> x = someFunction()  # returns 'a' or 'b'
>
> switcher[x]()
> ----
>
> With obvious changes if you want to pass arguments, check switcher with
> .get(), etc.

Dylan,

   I miss seeing how I can create a function to provide the value when given
the key. My code uses the item within the tuple (compList[0][4]) as the
dictionary's key, and I want to call the function whose name is the value of
that key.

   And all this time I thought that I understood dictionaries. :-)

Thanks,

Rich

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