On Apr 27, 8:05 am, philly_bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the sample program below, I want to send a random method to a class > instance. > In other words, I don't know which method to send until run-time. How > can I send ch, which is my random choice, to the myclass instance? > > Thanks, > > Bob= > > #### > import random > > class myclass(object): > def meth1(self): > print 'meth1' > def meth2(self): > print 'meth2' > > c=myclass() > meths=['meth1', 'meth2'] > ch=random.choice(meths) > c.ch()
Thanks for your responses, everybody. Turned out to be easiest to use Arnaud's Getattr suggestion. Below is a simplification of what I ended up with; the trick appears in the algday class. """ I have dictionaries of OHLC tuples (open, high, low, close market prices) for two hypothetical stocks (HUN and TEN); the dictionaries are keyed to dates. For each day that we have data, we want to be able to evaluate an algorithm of the form: (mysum 'HUN' 'open' 'TEN', close) in other words, to add the opening value of HUN to the closing value of TEN. Stock names and market values are stored in two lists: namelist and valuelist. Namelist contains the stock symbols (HUN, TEN). Valuelist contains dictionaries keyed to dates. Associated in the dictionary with each date is a tuple containing OHLC prices. Note that even in this sample we have to allow for days when one stock has market values and the other stock doesn't, as in the case of 20080424. We use a class algday, which, given an algorithm and day, has a method calc() which returns the result of applying that algorithm to the day. This class (algday) uses another class, namedayval, which, given a stock name and a OHLC valuename, returns the value. =Bob Moore Thanks to Arnaud Delobelle, Aaron Brady, and Ben Finney. """ import random class namedayvals(object): def __init__(self,name,date): self.name=name self.date=date self.index=namelist.index(name) self.valuelist=valuelist[self.index] self.dayswithvals=self.valuelist.keys() def open(self): if self.date not in self.dayswithvals: return 'NA' else: return self.valuelist[self.date][0] def high(self): if self.date not in self.dayswithvals: return 'NA' else: return self.valuelist[self.date][1] def low(self): if self.date not in self.dayswithvals: return 'NA' else: return self.valuelist[self.date][2] def close(self): if self.date not in self.dayswithvals: return 'NA' else: return self.valuelist[self.date][3] class algday(object): def __init__(self,myop,sec1,meth1,sec2,meth2,date): self.myop=myop self.sec1=sec1 self.meth1=meth1 self.sec2=sec2 self.meth2=meth2 self.date=date def show(self): print 'algday', self.myop,self.sec1,self.meth1,self.sec2,self.meth2,self.date def calc(self): s1=namedayvals(self.sec1, self.date) x1=getattr(s1,self.meth1)() s2=namedayvals(self.sec2, self.date) x2=getattr(s2,self.meth2)() if self.myop=='mysum': out=mysum(x1,x2) elif self.myop=='myless': out=myless(x1,x2) elif self.myop=='mydiv': out=mydiv(x1,x2) elif self.myop=='mytimes': out=mytimes(x1,x2) else: out='NA' return out def mydiv(num1, num2): if num1=='NA' or num2=='NA': temp='NA' else: if num2==0: temp=0.0 else: temp=float(num1)/float(num2) return temp def myless(num1,num2): if num1=='NA' or num2=='NA': temp='NA' else: temp=num1-num2 return temp def mytimes(num1,num2): if num1=='NA' or num2=='NA': temp='NA' else: temp=num1*num2 return temp def mysum(num1,num2): if num1=='NA' or num2=='NA': temp='NA' else: temp=num1*num2 return temp ##### namelist=[] valuelist=[] namelist.append('HUN') valuelist.append(dict({'20080422': (100.1,100.2,100.3,100.4), '20080423': (101.1,101.2,101.3,101.4), '20080424': (102.1,102.2,102.3,102.4)})) namelist.append('TEN') valuelist.append(dict({'20080422': (10.1,10.2,10.3,10.4), '20080423': (11.1,11.2,11.3,11.4)})) operatorlist=['mydiv','mysum','myless','mytimes'] valuenames=['open','high','low','close'] daylist=['20080422','20080423','20080424'] while 1: rop=random.choice(operatorlist) rn1=random.choice(namelist) rv1=random.choice(valuenames) rn2=random.choice(namelist) rv2=random.choice(valuenames) print rop,rn1,rv1,rn2,rv2 calcs=[] for date in daylist: a=algday(rop,rn1,rv1,rn2,rv2,date) calcs.append([date,a.calc()]) print 'daily calcs=', calcs print 'Control-C to stop' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list