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Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Thu Jun 16 18:09:19 EDT 2011 
Eric Snow wrote:
> Like I said, my main motivation is to reduce my levels of indentation
> somewhat.  I was trying to see if I could apply a pattern I use in
> functions and loops to modules.

If your sole goal here is to reduce clutter, then turn a repeated 
if/elif/else case into a dictionary lookup where the keys are functions, 
and execute the value.  Even then, unless there are quite a lot of 
cases, this may be overkill.

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