Invoking a method by name?

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:07:38AM +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:
> I need to call a method of an object where I only have the name of the
> method in a string. I have found one way, but I am not sure, maybe there
> is a more beautiful way to accomplish it?

There is.

> This is some example code:
> 
>   import inspect
>   
>   class test1:
>       def test(self):
>           print 'test'
>   
>   class test2(test1):
>       def test(self):
>           print 'extended test'
[..]
>   
>   a = test1()
>   b = test2()
>   

So far, so good.  But rather than:

>   inspect.getmembers(a, isrightfunc('test'))[0][1]()
>   inspect.getmembers(b, isrightfunc('test'))[0][1]()

Use:

    getattr(a, 'test')()
    getattr(b, 'test')()

-Andrew.