If you're hardcoding it sure, but at that point you should consider just using a module with bare functions. This pattern is for when the lookup value comes fro

If you're hardcoding it sure, but at that point you should consider just using a module with bare functions. This pattern is for when the lookup value comes from somewhere else, and to use it with attributes requires a more awkward getattr() call, and it has a less obvious error message if the value isn't in the lookup.