[Tutor] Dynamically naming functions

[Ed Singleton]

How does one go about creating functions, classes, or callable objects
when you don't know their name in advance? (For example you want to
read their names in from a text file or database).

I want to use this in a few different places.  For example Faces, the
Python Project Management Planner Tool Thingy, uses nested functions
to put tasks within a project:

def MyProject():
    start = "2006-03-06"
    resource = Me

    def Task1():
        start = "2006-03-13"

    def Task2():
        effort = "1w"

I'd like to load these from a database (using SQLObject), but I'm not
sure how I can define the name of the function from a filed in a
database (or read in from a text file).

I'd also like to be able to do this in CherryPy/TurboGears so that I
can create a dynamic site structure based on fields in a database.

Thanks

Ed