<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm parsing a simple file and given a line's keyword, would like to call > the equivalently named function. No, actually, you woudn't :-) Doing so means that if your programs input specification ever changes, you have to rename all of the relevant functions. Moreover, it leaves open the possibility that you might wind up calling a function you didn't intend. The right way to solve this kind of problem is to list all the functions you wish to be able to call in this way, and then explicitly define a mapping from keywords to the appropriate functions. Which is exactly what you're doing in > 3. Place all my functions in dictionary and lookup the function to be > called -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
