Looking for a more efficient way to call a class within a template

[cd34]

I have a template which calls a function by the name stored in the
database. Is there a more efficient way of doing this:

<% output = getattr(h.CMS(), element.function)() %>
${output}

[Michael Bayer]

yeah why aren't you able to say ${h.CMS.do(element)}

?

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[cd34]

I might be missing something somewhere:

models/cms.py:

class Element(Base):
__tablename__ = 'm_element'

id = Column(mysql.BIGINT(20, unsigned=True), primary_key=True,
autoincrement=True)
function = Column(Unicode(80))

lib/cms.py:

class CMS(object):
def article(self):
return render('element_article.mako')

So, Element.function = 'article' in this case, which required the
getattr since the function name is stored in a string.

${getattr(h.CMS(), element.function)()}

works, which removes the two lines. I'm not sure why I didn't see
that before. Too many hours staring at the code I guess. :)