Is this considered black magic?

[Martin von Loewis]

Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com> writes:

>             object.__class__.__dict__[name_key](object, *args)

I would write this as

              getattr(object, name_key)(*args)

If you read it aloud, you should say "get me the method(*) name_key of
object, and call it with args". That is not much magic.

HTH,
Martin

(*) It doesn't have to be a method. If it is not, calling it will
likely fail.