Question

everyone. Please see example below. I’d like to supply a string to ‘schedule_action’ method which specifies, what Bot-class method should be called. In the example below I’ve represented it as ‘bot.action()’ but I have no idea how to do it correctly. Please help

class Bot:
    def work(self): pass
    def fight(self): pass

class Scheduler:
    def schedule_action(self,action):
       bot = Bot()
       bot.action()

scheduler = Scheduler()
scheduler.schedule_action('fight')

Answer 1

Use getattr:

class Bot:
    def fight(self):
       print "fighting is fun!"

class Scheduler:       
    def schedule_action(self,action):
       bot = Bot()
       getattr(bot,action)()

scheduler = Scheduler()
scheduler.schedule_action('fight')

Note that getattr also takes an optional argument that allows you to return a default value in case the requested action doesn’t exist.