James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > please describe less abstractly what you're trying to do. > You sound like my former thesis adviser.
I couldn't understand what you were trying to do either. > OK. From an external source, such as configuration file, the user will > specify the *name* of a function somehow with the assumption that the > function will be coded somewhere (in the present or other modules) by > that name. Is something wrong with import some_module func = getattr(some_module, func_name) ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list