Terry Reedy wrote: > "heavydada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <snip> >> I just need some way of >> being able to read from the file what function the program needs to >> call next. Any help is appreciated. > > Suppose you have a file actions.py with some action functions: > def hop(self): ... > def skip(self): ... > def jump(self) <more snipping> > Terry Jan Reedy
Another convenient way if, for some reason, you're not creating objects for your creatures would be using a dictionary to look up functions, like: def hop(x): return x+1 def skip(x): return x+2 def jump(x): return x+3 actionlookup={"hop": hop, "skip": skip, "jump": jump} action=actionlookup["hop"] action() #this will call hop() Please note that I'm only including this for completeness, for any larger project (or medium sized, or anything more then a few lines, really) this gets really unwieldy really quickly (imagine if you had thousands of functions! Madness!) Terry's suggestion is a much better solution then this. If this looks easier, consider changing the rest of your program before kludging something hideous like this together. Good luck, -Jordan Greenberg -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list