[Tutor] Dynamic Function Calls

Megan Land mland at us.ibm.com
Fri Aug 14 15:06:52 CEST 2009


All three methods are defined below the snippet I provided.

def func():
    code...
def func0():
    do stuff
def func1():
   do stuff
def func2():
    do stuff

Megan Land
FVT Blade EMET Test Engineer
mland at us.ibm.com


                                                                                                   
  From:       Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net>                                                        
                                                                                                   
  To:         Megan Land/Raleigh/Contr/IBM at IBMUS                                                   
                                                                                                   
  Cc:         tutor at python.org                                                                     
                                                                                                   
  Date:       08/13/2009 05:18 PM                                                                  
                                                                                                   
  Subject:    Re: [Tutor] Dynamic Function Calls                                                   
                                                                                                   
  Sent by:    kent3737 at gmail.com                                                                   
                                                                                                   





On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Megan Land<mland at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to call a function from a dictionary. I did some googling and
> from what I can tell my code should work, but doesn't. Here's an example:
>
> def myFunc(self, inputList):
> dict={0: func0, 1: func1, 2:func2}
> for element in inputList:
> dict[element]()
>
> When I go to run this I get an error saying func0 is not defined. Does
> anyone have any ideas as to why this won't work? I'm using Python 2.6 if
> that makes any difference.

You don't show any definition for func0 in the above snippet. Where is
it defined?

Kent
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