[Tutor] Still pondering dynamically named functions ...

[Kalle Svensson]

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[Graeme Andrew]
> My problem is understanding how in Python I can call dynamically at
> runtime the name of a function I have just read from the
> configuration file ... ie assign a function name to a variable and
> then call the function using this variable.

You can use the dictionary returned by globals() like this:

name = read_from_cfg_file()
globals()[name]()

That is assuming that your functions are bound to global names.  For
example, g won't be in globals() here:

def f():
    def g():
        pass

Peace,
  Kalle
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