On 2007-01-02, Stef Mientki <S.Mientki-nospam@[...].nl>  wrote:

>  If I'm not mistaken, I read somewhere that you can use 
>  function-names/references in lists and/or dictionaries, but
>  now I can't find it anymore.
> 
>  The idea is to build a simulator for some kind of micro
>  controller (just as a general practise, I expect it too be
>  very slow ;-).
> 
>  opcodes ={
>     1: ('MOV', function1, ...),
>     2: ('ADD', function2, ),
>     3: ('MUL', class3.function3, )
>     }
> 
>  def function1
>     # do something complex
> 
> 
>  Is this possible ?

Yes.  

What you're implementing is commonly referred to as a
"dispatcher", and they're often done with a dictionary exactly
as you show.

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