Oops! guess I should have tested my rather hasty complaint about executable
containers. This is nice:
def a(): return 'b'
def b(): print 'polly! wakey wakey'
c = {}
c['a'] = b
c[a()]() #works!
c[a()]() is a switch statement with an amorphous selector- very handy in its
own right. But, using a() as a generator would be more expressive. This
seems to work:
c = [a,a]
[d() for d in c]
But that still isn't as simple or as direct as:
c[:]()
Which would you rather explain to a 12-year-old writing code for the first
time?
> I still want my executable container though. Would love to so this
>
> h[search('a//f')]() # where a//f is like an Xpath // search for leaves
>
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