def <dynamic function name> () syntax ?

[Bruce Edge]

Thanks to everyone for the help.
It was very educational to see the different ways of doing this that were
illustrated by everyone's examples.
To answer one question, yes, I was mentally porting a tcl construct to
Python.
I ended up using a simple function name dictionary to map the function
names into a lookup table. This bought me the flexibility I needed.

Once again, thanks to all.

-Bruce.

In article <20010404.095211.716334471.21458 at mead.troikanetworks.com>,
"Bruce Edge" <bedge at troikanetworks.com> wrote:

> Can the follwoing be accomplished in Python?
> 
> I want to create a func named "abc":
> 
>>>> name="abc"
> 
>>>> eval ("name")
> 'abc'
> 
>>>> def eval ("name") ():
>   File "<stdin>", line 1
>     def eval ("name") ():
>                    ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> 
> Thanks, Bruce.