May I be the first to say "Doh!" Problem solved, many thanks to both Carsten and Diez!
SM 2009/11/4 Carsten Haese <carsten.ha...@gmail.com>: > Simon Mullis wrote: >> def main(): >> stats_obj = Statistic() >> name = re.sub("[^A-Za-z]", "", sys.argv[0]) >> method = getattr(stats_obj, name, None) >> if callable(method): >> stats_obj.name() # <------------HERE >> else: >> print "nope, not sure what you're after...." >> ----------- >> >> However, as I'm sure you've all noticed already, there is no method >> called "name". I would really prefer to get a nudge in the right >> direction before I start evaling variables and so on. > > At the point you marked "HERE", you've already found the method, and you > have determined that it is callable. You just need to call it. Like > this: method(). > > HTH, > > -- > Carsten Haese > http://informixdb.sourceforge.net > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Simon Mullis _________________ si...@mullis.co.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list