Answer by Number File for Calling a function of a module by using its name (a...
This is a simple answer, this will allow you to clear the screen for example. There are two examples below, with eval and exec, that will print 0 at the top after cleaning (if you're using Windows,...
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As this question How to dynamically call methods within a class using method-name assignment to a variable [duplicate] marked as a duplicate as this one, I am posting a related answer here: The...
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Try this. While this still uses eval, it only uses it to summon the function from the current context. Then, you have the real function to use as you wish. The main benefit for me from this is that you...
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The best answer according to the Python programming FAQ would be: functions = {'myfoo': foo.bar} mystring = 'myfoo' if mystring in functions: functions[mystring]() The primary advantage of this...
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The answer (I hope) no one ever wanted Eval like behavior getattr(locals().get("foo") or globals().get("foo"), "bar")() Why not add auto-importing getattr( locals().get("foo") or globals().get("foo")...
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Given a string, with a complete python path to a function, this is how I went about getting the result of said function: import importlib function_string = 'mypackage.mymodule.myfunc' mod_name,...
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none of what was suggested helped me. I did discover this though. <object>.__getattribute__(<string name>)(<params>) I am using python 2.66 Hope this helps
View ArticleAnswer by Sourcegeek for Calling a function of a module by using its name (a...
Just a simple contribution. If the class that we need to instance is in the same file, we can use something like this: # Get class from globals and create an instance m = globals()['our_class']() # Get...
View ArticleAnswer by trubliphone for Calling a function of a module by using its name (a...
For what it's worth, if you needed to pass the function (or class) name and app name as a string, then you could do this: myFnName = "MyFn" myAppName = "MyApp" app = sys.modules[myAppName] fn =...
View ArticleAnswer by sastanin for Calling a function of a module by using its name (a...
locals()["myfunction"]() or globals()["myfunction"]() locals returns a dictionary with a current local symbol table. globals returns a dictionary with global symbol table.
View ArticleAnswer by HS. for Calling a function of a module by using its name (a string)
Patrick's solution is probably the cleanest. If you need to dynamically pick up the module as well, you can import it like: module = __import__('foo') func = getattr(module, 'bar') func()
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Assuming module foo with method bar: import foo method_to_call = getattr(foo, 'bar') result = method_to_call() You could shorten lines 2 and 3 to: result = getattr(foo, 'bar')() if that makes more...
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What is the best way to go about calling a function given a string with the function's name in a Python program. For example, let's say that I have a module foo, and I have a string whose content is...
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getattr calls method by name from an object.But this object should be parent of calling class.The parent class can be got by super(self.__class__, self)class Base: def call_base(func):"""This does not...
View ArticleAnswer by Lukas for Calling a function of a module by using its name (a string)
Although getattr() is elegant (and about 7x faster) method, you can get return value from the function (local, class method, module) with eval as elegant as x = eval('foo.bar')(). And when you...
View ArticleAnswer by U12-F̉͋̅̾̇orward for Calling a function of a module by using its...
Nobody mentioned operator.attrgetter yet:>>> from operator import attrgetter>>> l = [1, 2, 3]>>> attrgetter('reverse')(l)()>>> l[3, 2, 1]>>>
View ArticleAnswer by Aliakbar Ahmadi for Calling a function of a module by using its...
In python3, you can use the __getattribute__ method. See following example with a list method name string:func_name = 'reverse'l = [1, 2, 3, 4]print(l)>> [1, 2, 3,...
View ArticleAnswer by Bowen 404 for Calling a function of a module by using its name (a...
i'm facing the similar problem before, which is to convert a string to a function. but i can't use eval() or ast.literal_eval(), because i don't want to execute this code immediately.e.g. i have a...
View ArticleAnswer by Andrey for Calling a function of a module by using its name (a string)
You should take a look to qcall:from qcall import callcall("foo.bar") # calls foo.bar()
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Verified and tested:# demo.pyimport sysdef f1(): print("Function 1 called")def f2(): print("Function 2 called")def f3(): print("Function 3 called")def f4(): print("Function 4 called")functions = {"f1":...
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