can you call a function from a list?

[buran]

I feel i have to be able to hold the actual function in the list because i cant think of any other way to be able to select and print(see) the item as is through a list.

You can iterate over items in a list and apply a fucntion on each item, no need to have the function in a/the list
e.g.

for item in some_list:
    some_function(item)

or using list comprehension (e.g. if you have a list and want to create new list with elements being the result, i.e. value returned by some function)