On Dec 6, 2008, at 9:48 PM, Tim Lahey wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> This is more of a python question than a Sage one,
> but I kind of need to figure this out for the
> integral test suite. I'd like to pass the name of
> a function into another function in order to
> carry out the comparison. This may change depending
> on the integral so I'd like to store the name in
> a list.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this in Python? Or should
> I just bite the bullet and make a class and pass an
> object, instead?

In Python you can pass functions around just like anything else. For  
example

sage: def foo(x): return x*x
....:
sage: def call_it(f, n): return f(n)
....:
sage: call_it(foo, 5)
25

- Robert



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