Using user input to call functions

Question

I was trying to make a \"game\" in Python where the user inputs a command. However, I do not know whether you can take that input to be a function name. This is my current e

Answer 1

It's usually better to re-use code as Hans suggests, but if you wanted to input commands and run them manually, it would be MUCH safer to have a dictionary of valid commands than to directly execute user-provided input.

cmd = { 'move': move, 'jump': jump, 'look': look }