James Stroud wrote: > James Stroud wrote: > >> Basically, what I am trying to acomplish is to be able to do this in >> any arbitrary module or __main__: >> >> >> funcname = determined_externally() >> ModuleUser.do_something_with(AModule, funcname) >> >> >> Ideally, it would be nice to leave out AModule if the functions were >> designed in the same namespace in which do_something_with is called. > > > > Is this the preferred way? > > > import sys > def do_something_with(funcname, amodule=None): > if amodule is None: > function = sys._getframe(1).f_locals[funcname] > else: > function = getattr(amodule, funcname) > [etc.] > > > James >
_.replace('locals', 'globals') James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list