How to call a function depending on the user input?

Question

Hi team

I am trying to get a user input and then store it in a list

now what I want to do is, call a specific function depending on the [i] th value in that list

for example

my_list[0] has value 'a' then I want to call the function_a() #which i have already defined

my_list[1] has value 'b' stored at that index then i want to call function_b #again function_b has already beem defined

so basically,

I want to see if the value in that list matches any of my function then I want to trigger that function

example in detail:

user_input : 'text'

list = []

for i in user_input:
list.append[i]

so my list becomes ['t','e','x','t']

now,

I have specific functions for each of these alphabets

(i think i should have a dictionary or something where keys are alphabets and values are respective function, I don't know if thats even phaaaasssibbble)

but i want to call those function as per these values in the list

so here i want my program to call

function_t
function_e
function_x
function_t

Answer 1

Kishalaya Saha

Answer 2

leave the parantheses in your dictionary

Answer 3

yes, you can declare all functions in a dictionary:
dict = {"a": func_a, "b": func_b, "c": func_c, .....}

this gets you the input as list:
list = list(input("Enter something:"))

now you only need to iterate over the list and call the corresponding functions:
for x in list:
dict[x]

Answer 4

sorry, I was creating the dictionary before the function, when i put that line after my function the error is gone

now let me see how to iterate through this dictionary

Answer 5

Looks like your problem has been solved. Great!

Answer 6

Yes, what Oma said. Using parentheses means you are actually calling the function.

Answer 7

ok understood, thanks

Answer 8

Kevin Dietrichstein I tried creating a dictionary but it says 'undefined name 'function_a'

# my function name is function_a()

Answer 9

Kishalaya Saha Actually there is a new problem

my dictionary is

dict = {"a": function_a(), "b": function_b...... and so on}

but when I am running a program all these functions are getting executed

😅