I'm writing a small game in python and I need to be able to run some scripts inside the game. In the game I have these creatures each with some attributes like name and weight and an action. Right now I'm saving all this information in an XML file, which I parse whenever I need it. I can handle the attributes like name and weight because these are just values I can assign to a variable, but the action part is what has me stumped. Each of the creatures has a different action() function (as in, each does something different). I was wondering how I can read commands from the XML file and then execute them in the game. I read a document that talked about this, but it was written in Visual Basic and used a method called callByName or something like that. It could call a function simply by sending the name as a string parameter. I was wondering if there was an equivalent in python. I just need some way of being able to read from the file what function the program needs to call next. Any help is appreciated.
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