python - Is there another way to generically control code flow without the use of eval/dictionary?

Question

I wrote a server that accepts requests and performs tasks.

• Each task is represented by a function.
• Each request has the name of the task.

I want to make a reference to the relevant functions by the name of the task that found in the request. I saw that it works fine using eval() and even if I implement it through a dictionary but is there another generic way to control the flow of the code?

def din():
    print("din")

def david():
    print("david")

request = {"TestName": "din"}

# option 1: eval
test_to_run = request['TestName']

eval(f"{test_to_run}()")

# option 2: dict
my_dict = {"din": din, "david": david}

my_dict[test_to_run]()

Answer 1

No, not really. In my opinion the 'Request' map is the safer of the two options, because it makes it impossible to run arbitrary code through 'eval', which could be unsafe.