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Noob asking: How do I get a program execute a random function?

Aug 2nd, 2007 07:41
stephen brown, Jimmy Hill,

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from random import randint

def fun1():
    print "Function 1 invoked"
    return

def fun2():
    print "Function 2 invoked"
    return

def fun3():
    print "Function 3 invoked"
    return

def fun4():
    print "Function 4 invoked"
    return

funlist = [fun1, fun2, fun3, fun4]
funlist[randint(0, len(funlist)-1)]()
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I'm not sure why you'ld want to do this.  In general, it will be better
to just have one function whose behaviour is random, e.g.

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from random import randint

def ranfun():
    print "Function", randint(1,4), "invoked"
    return

ranfun()
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which has the same behaviour and is easier to read.