Functional/Best?

[Tim Cook]

I guess I can classify my application(s) as more procedural than
anything else.  But I have a question about the best way to handle
something in Python.

When given a mapping of keywords, I want to call a function based on a
certain keyword found when parsing a text file.  The mapping looks like
this:

definClassMap={'SECTION':'bldSection','COMPOSITION':'bldComposition','OBSERVATION':'bldObservation','ITEM_TREE':'bldItemTree'}

So if the text file contains 'ITEM_TREE'  I want to call bldItemTree
which creates an instance of the class ItemTree.  

I currently use an if ..., elif ... construct.


Is there a better, more efficient, more Pythonic way of doing this?

Thanks,
Tim




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