Question

I’m looking for a better way to call functions based on a variable in Python vs using if/else statements like below. Each status code has a corresponding function

if status == 'CONNECT':     return connect(*args, **kwargs) elif status == 'RAWFEED':     return rawfeed(*args, **kwargs) elif status == 'RAWCONFIG':     return rawconfig(*args, **kwargs) elif status == 'TESTFEED':     return testfeed(*args, **kwargs) ... 

I assume this will require some sort of factory function but unsure as to the syntax

Answer 1

The canonical way to do this is to use a dictionary to emulate switch or if/elif. You will find several questions to similar problems here on SO.

Put your functions into a dictionary with your status codes as keys:

funcs = {     'CONNECT': connect,     'RAWFEED': rawfeed,     'RAWCONFIG' : rawconfig,     'TESTFEED': testfeed } funcs[status](*args, **kwargs)