newbie: declare function before definition?

[David Kramer]

Disclaimer: 16 years programming experience, 1 week experience with 
Python.

It appears to me that in Python, functions need to be defined before they 
are called (physically in the file, I mean).  This means any piddly little 
utility functions have to be before my main routine, and the reader has to 
wade through them before getting to the main routine.

In some other languages, one can declare a function, and define it later, 
and the compiler is happy.  Is there a way to do this in Python?

Here is an example of what I'm talking about:

[dkramer at fbsddev02 devel]$ cat deftest1
#!/usr/remote/bin/python

def MyFuncBefore ():
    print "In Before"

print "Before"
MyFuncBefore()
print "After"
MyFuncAfter()

def MyFuncAfter ():
    print "In After"



[dkramer at fbsddev02 devel]$ deftest1
Before
In Before
After
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./deftest1", line 9, in ?
    MyFuncAfter()
NameError: name 'MyFuncAfter' is not defined


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