Python dynamic function selection

[Eric]

The following example will explain what i want to do:

def func(): print "true" rules=(func,)
for rule in rules: rule

I expect the final function to print true, but instead i have
<function func at 0x00DC6EB0>

How do i get it to print true. I know if i had parameters in rule
like: def func(var): print var rules=(func,)
for rule in rules:

rule("true")
it will work. But in my case i don't need to pass any parameters.

How do i get the former method to print instead of returning a
function?

Eric

[Marijan Tadin]

for rule in rules:
rule()


"Eric" <ek****@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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The following example will explain what i want to do:

def func(): print "true" rules=(func,)
for rule in rules: rule

I expect the final function to print true, but instead i have
<function func at 0x00DC6EB0>

How do i get it to print true. I know if i had parameters in rule
like: def func(var): print var rules=(func,)
for rule in rules:

rule("true")
it will work. But in my case i don't need to pass any parameters.

How do i get the former method to print instead of returning a
function?

Eric

[Dragos Chirila]

Hi

for rule in rules:
rule()

because rule it is a function

Regards,
Dragos

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric" <ek****@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <py*********@python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:42 AM
Subject: Python dynamic function selection

The following example will explain what i want to do:

def func(): print "true" rules=(func,)
for rule in rules: rule

I expect the final function to print true, but instead i have
<function func at 0x00DC6EB0>

How do i get it to print true. I know if i had parameters in rule
like: def func(var): print var rules=(func,)
for rule in rules:

rule("true")
it will work. But in my case i don't need to pass any parameters.

How do i get the former method to print instead of returning a
function?

Eric
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[Tuure Laurinolli]

Eric wrote:

def func(): print "true"

rules=(func,)
for rule in rules: rule

I expect the final function to print true, but instead i have
<function func at 0x00DC6EB0>

Why? You are not calling the function, so in the interactive interpreter
you get the representation instead.

for rule in rules:

rule("true")

Call it without passing arguments. The parentheses denote that the name
to their left is callable and should be called with whatever arguments
there are inside them, there can also be 0 arguments.

for rule in rules:
rule()

[Shalabh Chaturvedi]

Eric wrote:

The following example will explain what i want to do:

def func():
print "true"
rules=(func,)
for rule in rules:

rule

I expect the final function to print true, but instead i have
<function func at 0x00DC6EB0>

<another example snipped>
How do i get the former method to print instead of returning a
function?

Eric

As others have mentioned, you have to use parenthesis () to call
anything, function or otherwise.

The function name by itself referes to the function. This feature allows
functions to be used as first-class objects easily - they can be passed
around like data.

def f():
print 'true'

g = f
g()

HTH,
Shalabh

[Daniel 'Dang' Griffith]

On 12 May 2004 01:42:02 -0700, ek****@yahoo.com (Eric) wrote:

The following example will explain what i want to do:

def func(): print "true" rules=(func,)
for rule in rules: rule

I expect the final function to print true, but instead i have
<function func at 0x00DC6EB0>

How do i get it to print true. I know if i had parameters in rule
like: def func(var): print var rules=(func,)
for rule in rules:

rule("true")
it will work. But in my case i don't need to pass any parameters.

How do i get the former method to print instead of returning a
function?

In Python, as in C and many other languages (but not BASIC or
Pascal/Delphi and probably others), to call/invoke/execute a function,
you need to put parentheses after the name. This is what the others'
examples have shown:
for rule in rules:
rules() # call the function
If this were not the way it worked, then in the line above it, where
you have:
rules=(func,)
it would have (called and) printed true and returned None
(implicitly), and rules would point to a (None,) tuple.

--dang