Turning Strings into Functions

[Freddy]

I guess I could do that. Right now I'm creating the use cases
dictionary in a totally separate module which knows nothing about my
main module's functions. But I will try either moving the code into my
current module, or including the testcases.py into my higher level
module.
Thanks for the suggestion.

Freddy

"Richard Brodie" <R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<bl0usu$j5g at newton.cc.rl.ac.uk>...
> "Freddy" <freddycooper01 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:46610d4e.0309251516.45a8eb01 at posting.google.com...
> 
> > How do you turn a string into a callable function? I'm writing a
> > program which takes user input and then looks up the associated
> > function to run from a shelved dictionary.
> 
> I see you have an answer already, so I'll give you a question.
> Is there any particular reason why you are storing the name
> of the function in the dictionary rather than the function itself?
> 
> i.e. myDict["Case1"] = {"desc":"This is Case1", "func1": Handler1} etc