[Tutor] Trying To Debug Code That Runs Arbitrary Function

[Vern Ceder]

Here's your hint... to execute a Python function, it must be followed by
parentheses.... otherwise you are just referring to the function object.

HTH,

Vern

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Homme, James <james.homme at highmark.com>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> If you can get away with not telling me the answer, but pointing me to
> where to look for the answer, I'd be grateful.
>
>
>
> In my Python learning, I am just now starting to understand how to make
> classes and extend them, so I have a very long way to go.
>
>
>
> I wrote this code because I wanted to avoid lots of if statements and
> having to maintain a bunch of code like that. Eventually, my idea is to read
> in strings from a file, look one up, and use it to execute a function. So I
> created the following code. But nothing gets printed to the screen. How do I
> go about figuring out why this isn't happening? Here's the code.
>
>
>
> myfuncs = [ "func1",
>
>                 "func2" ]
>
>
>
> def func1():
>
>   print "func 1"
>
>
>
> def func2():
>
>   print "func 2"
>
>
>
> eval (myfuncs[0])
>
>
>
> raw_input("Press enter to quit")
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Jim
>
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