I have the following class;
class myStringMethod(): def __init__(self): self.func_list= [('func1','print_func1()'),('func2','print_func2()')] def print_func1(self, name): print name def print_func2(self, name): print name def call_func_by_name(self): for func in self.func_list: getattr(self, func[1])('Func Name') if __name__=='__main__': strM = myStringMethod() strM.call_func_by_name() #Nothing prints out! No functions get called out, what am i missing?
gath
your self.func_list should be:
self.func_list= [('func1','print_func1'),('func2','print_func2')] And the way your code is written it will, of course, print 'Func Name'. I guess you probably meant to pass func[0] there.
Working example:
>>> class myStringMethod(): def __init__(self): self.func_list= [('func1','print_func1'),('func2','print_func2')] def print_func1(self, name): print(name) def print_func2(self, name): print(name) def call_func_by_name(self): for func in self.func_list: getattr(self, func[1])('Func Name') >>> myStringMethod().call_func_by_name() Func Name Func Name 
maybe offtopic, but maybe your list is actually a dict :
self.functs = {'func1':'print_func1', ...} and then call with :
for fn in self.functs.values() : self.__dict__[fn]('Func Name') or even if you wanted to call all 'func_' functions in your class (no func_list here) :
@classmethod def call_func_by_name(cls) for n,f in cls.__dict__.values() : if n.startswith('print_') and hasattr(f,'__call__'): f('Hello') 