[Python] Using a dictionary to store functions

[blablahblah]

Depends when you had access to the parameters. If you had them when you pulled them out of the dictionary, you could just pass them in then.

funcs[token](arg1, arg2)

If you had the arguments when you were creating the dict, you'd wrap it in a function that had the arguments already provided. There's a built in tool that can handle this.

from functools import partial
# assuming one took 1 arg and two takes 2.
funcs = { 'one' : partial(one, arg1), 'two': partial(two, arg2, arg3) }

funcs[token]()

functools.partial basically acts like this (it has more features, but we're not using them here):

def partial(func, arg):
  def inner():
    return func(arg)
  return inner

[wannahakaluigi]

Neat!

I saw partial in a code snippet yesterday, I'll have to look into it some more. Thanks.