james_027 a écrit : > hi, > > i have a function that I could like to call, but to make it more > dynamic I am constructing a string first that could equivalent to the > name of the function I wish to call. how could I do that? the string > could might include name of the module. > > for example > > a_string = 'datetime.' + 'today()' > > how could I call a_string as function?
The obvious answer is to use eval or exec, but it's 99.99 times out of 100 the wrong solution. Better solutions usually rely on Python's introspection features - mostly globals(), locals(), sys.modules, and of course getattr(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
