David, If your true design intent is to run X number of test cases, unittest is the biggest bang for your buck, like shown by Peter's example. You just subclass unittest.TestCase, and def your test methods in the class body; they will simply be executed in the order you list them. It's just nice how it works that way.
Otherwise, the function factory approach like Hrvoje's functionToCall = getattr(self, "testCase%s" % tc) is the best optimization. Cheers, -Basilisk96 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
