Question

(I really can’t come up with a better title!)

I’ve got a set of functions:

def foo(bar, baz)
def spam(blah, etc, woof)

and a Namespace object which includes the function name and function-specific params, e.g. args=(fun=foo, baz=111, baz=222). How do I call the function and pass params to it? Like this, but nicer:

 x = vars(args)
 fun = x['fun']
 del x['fun']
 fun(**x)

(I’m looking for a nice one-line solution).

Answer 1

When aDict is a dictionary with function name under "fun" key and other arguments you could try:

aDict.pop("fun")(**aDict)