[SOLVED] Format message by calling a written python function name in string

Issue

I have functions

def getName():
   name = "Mark"
   return name

def getDay():
   day = "Tuesday"
   return day

I have a variable

message = "Hi there [getName] today is [getDay]"

I need to check all occurences for the strings between the square brackets in my message variable and check whether that name is a function that exists so that I can evaluate the value returned by the function and finally come up with a new message string as follows

message = "Hi there Mark, today is Tuesday

Solution

There is another way of achieving this if you specifically want to use the string in that format. However, fstrings as shown in the above answer are a much superior alternative.

def f(message):
    returned_value=''
    m_copy=message
    while True:
        if '[' in m_copy:
            returned_value+=m_copy[:m_copy.index('[')]
            returned_value+=globals()[m_copy[m_copy.index('[')+1:m_copy.index(']')]]()
            m_copy=m_copy[m_copy.index(']')+1:]
        else:
            return returned_value+m_copy

Answered By – Mous

Answer Checked By – Mary Flores (BugsFixing Volunteer)