Chris wrote: > but more of a basic question following, I was doing the following before: > > method = 'split' # came from somewhere else of course > result = re.__dict__[method].(REGEX, TXT) > > precompiling the regex > > r = compile(REGEX) > > does give an regex object which has the needed methods > > print dir(r) > ['__copy__', '__deepcopy__', 'findall', 'finditer', 'match', > 'scanner', 'search', 'split', 'sub', 'subn'] > > but how do I evaluate them without explicitly calling them? > > result = r.__???MAGIC???__[method](TXT) > > obviously I am not a Python pro ;)
Use getattr: method = 'split' result = getattr(re.compile(REGEX), method)(TXT) HTH, STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
