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Subject: How to handle calling functions from cli
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Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:20835

I have a bunch of sub routines that run independently to perform various sys=
tem checks on my servers. I wanted to get an opinion on the following code I=
 have about 25 independent checks and I'm adding the ability to disable cert=
ain checks that don't apply to certain hosts.


m =3D { 'a': 'checkDisks()',
          'b': 'checkMemSize()',
          'c': 'checkBondInterfaces()'
    }
=20
    parser =3D argparse.ArgumentParser(description=3D'Parse command line arg=
s.')
    parser.add_argument('-x', action=3D"store", dest=3D"d")
    r =3D parser.parse_args(sys.argv[1:])
=20
    runlist =3D [ c for c in m.keys() if c not in r.d ]
    for runable in runlist:
        eval(m[runable])

I'm using temp variable names for now until I find an approach I like.

Is this a good approach ? It doesn't look too pretty and to be honest feels a=
wkward?=20

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