Computing a function name from another function name

Question

In python 3.4, I want to be able to do a very simple dispatch table for testing purposes. The idea is to have a dictionary with the key being a string of the name of the functi

Answer 1

Abarnert's answer seems to be useful but to answer your original question of how to call all test functions for a list of function names:

def test_f():
    print("testing f...")

def test_g():
    print("testing g...")

myTestList = ['f', 'g']

for funcname in myTestList:
    eval('test_' + funcname + '()')