Carsten Haese wrote:
Right now I use an eval, but I'm wondering if there isn't a better way:
There's (almost) always a better way than using eval.
Yes I agree, every time I use eval, I feel like the language is missing
something, fair enough to shell type languages, but usually not the case in
python. That's why I asked,
In this case, you
should use getattr().
Right ! I always forget about get/set attr. Thanks !
Here's your simplified example modified to use getattr:
Tried it, and it works if we remove the self from the name of course:
import sys
class dummy(object):
def __init__(self, arg):
self.todo = 'print' + arg;
def printa(self):
print 'a'
def printb(self):
print 'b'
def doit(self):
#func = getattr(self, self.todo)
#func()
getattr(self, self.todo)()
o = dummy(sys.argv[1])
o.doit()
Thanks again,
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