On 08/02/2012 17:41, Gregory, Matthew wrote:
Alan Gauld wrote:
Since a class is effectively a disguised dictionary I'm not sure why you
want to do this? If you just want to access the method by name then why
not just call getattr(spam,'get_mean')?
Thanks for the feedback and, yes, this makes sense. My use case was when the
statistic desired was going to be specified at runtime (through file input or UI)
and that a dictionary would be a convenient crosswalk to associate the statistic
name with the method name (and thus avoid an if/else ladder). But I understand
that as long as there is a direct relationship between the name of the statistic
and my class method (e.g. 'mean' -> get_mean), that I should be able to use
the getattr() syntax as above.
Thanks also to Joel for the suggestion to put the dictionary inside of __init__.
thanks, matt
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