Calling function from a string

[Chris Rebert]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a string representing the name of a function in Python 3.0. How
> can I call the function name represented by this string *without*
> creating a mapping?

Assuming the function is within scope:

return_val = vars()[the_string](arguments, go, here)

Cheers,
Chris

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