Question

Is there an easy way to call a function given a string name in mako?

Answer 1

You should be able to look it up in the dict returned by globals(). Eg.:

<$ func_name = 'my_function_name' %>
${globals()[func_name](...)}

Although, this does smell rather nasty to me. If you could expand upon your end game perhaps we can figure out something a bit saner.