> I'm actually pretty surprised that there isn't a built-in facility > with > Python for referencing functions like this.
I'm not. In fact its pretty unusual in any language to try to map from function name to function directly. Dictionaries are the universal solution for this, I can only think of a handful(4?) languages that I've used (Out of 20 plus) that can do string -> function mapping directly. Its not usually a very useful thing to do - how would the typical user know what the function names were? Either the user has access to the code or the code presents the names to the user(as strings) in which case a mapping has to exist somewhere already. I'm curious as to how you are addressing those issues? Is this something that only developers will be using? How will the user know what names are possible? Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
