Question

In other words, is this giving me errors purely because it’s impossible to actually do or am I just writing it wrong:

class someClass:

    self.myString = "Hello"
    self.myMap =  {
    'someString' : self.functionInClass
    }

So if functionInClass takes an argument, I want to call it like so from anywhere inside the class:

self.myMap[self.myString](theArgument)

This just yields:

NameError: name 'self' is not defined

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Yes you can do that, since methods (or bound methods) are just objects themselves.

In your code you forgot your function. I think you wanted to write somthing like this:

class someClass:
    def __init__(self):
        self.myString = "Hello"
        self.myMap =  {
            'someString' : self.functionInClass
        }

    def functionInClass(self):
        pass