Call a function using a variable

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 27-Apr-2001 Bjorn Pettersen wrote:
>> From: Colin Meeks [mailto:colinmeeks at home.com]
>> 
>> Does anybody know if it's possible to do something along the 
>> following lines
>> :
>> 
>> myfunction="test"
>> x=myfunction
>> 
>> Basically what I want is when the x variable gets declared it 
>> get's it's
>> data from the function test()
> 
> myfunction = eval('test')
> x = myfunction()
> 
> of course, if you're not sure what you're passing to eval you might get
> surprising results <wink>
> 

my question is why use a string?  You can just use the function itself:

myfunc = existing_func
x = myfunc()