Jay Parlar wrote: > I don't think I've ever seen anyone advocating calling a function like > getattr(obj "foo" + "bar")().
>From Lib/compiler/visitor.py: meth = getattr(self.visitor, 'visit' + className, 0) Later on: meth(node, *args) Of course, you can drop the "visit" prefix and make the mechanism more predictable, but a search on the standard library for getattr produces a lot of evidence against your assertion. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list