Agree, I do it a lot as a way of selecting functions in a switch statement: handlers = { 'dave' : call_dave(), 'ted' : call_ted(),

Agree, I do it a lot as a way of selecting functions in a switch statement: handlers = { 'dave' : call_dave(), 'ted' : call_ted(), 'julie' : contact('julie') } handlers['dave']() # Call dave handlers['julie']() # Contact julie [handlers[person]() for person in ['dave', 'julie', 'ted']] # Contact all three