Edward Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Basically my application has a scheduler which stores names of functions > > defined in the "schedule" module in a database, to be run on certain > > days. Every night I call schedule.RunSchedule, which grabs all the rows on > > the database that have to be run now, and I want to call the function > > defined the same module according to that string. > > I know that sys.modules[__name__] gives the module object for the current > module. You could do: > > m = sys.modules[__name__] # M now current module object > func = m.__dict__ [fs] # func has function named by string fs > func()
sys.modules[__name__].__dict__ may be more handily accessed by the built-in function globals(). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list