Need to call functions/class_methods etc using string ref :How

[Donn Ingle]

> I see someone already showed you eval.  Eval is evil.  Don't use it. 
> Especially if the functions are coming to you from a public URL!
Yes, I suggested to him (by email) this:

thisinstance =  SomeObject.__class__.__dict__
<Then you have a list of strings that may be function names, so:>
for f in yourlist:
 if f in thisinstance: eval(f)(params)

Which would vet the functions too.


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