Make bash call my own Python modules

[Pedroski55]

I have a little homework webpage. I'm trying to automate the production of the webpage each week.

I know very little about this. Wednesday I asked here about importing Python functions that I made. I think I have grasped the concept. I've tested everything in Idle. All the modules work.

In my Python shell, (I use Idle in Ubuntu), everything does what I want.

I first append the paths:

for i in range(0, len(pyPaths)):
sys.path.append(pyPaths[i])

then import the modules:

from makeRBsInlineV1 import makeHTMLrbsNums
from makeCheckboxesInlineV1 import makeHTMLCBs
from makeDropdownboxesInlineV1 import makeDropdownboxes
from createhtmlTableInlineV1 import makeHTMLtable
from makeRBsInlineV2 import makeHTML_RBs
from readLinesTextboxesInlineV1 import readLinesmakeTBs
from makeThankyouPHPInlineV1 import makeThankyouPHP

All these modules return a text string which is a mixture of html tags + my text. It displays nicely in Firefox.

In Idle I just write, for example:

myString = readLinesTextboxesInlineV3()

it asks me a few questions and off it goes. Afterwards, myString is ready to be put in the webpage text string.

However, in bash, I cannot write

myString = readLinesTextboxesInlineV3()

in bash, I cannot write

myString = input('Enter the name of the module you want. ')

and then enter,

readLinesTextboxesInlineV3()

because then myString is just the input text, not the function.

Each week things are different, I may need to run 2 or more of the modules, add the result strings, then write them in the webpage text string in the correct insertion point.

I run this in a

while True:

loop, so I can add strings from various modules.

For any given week, I don't know which module I want to use, so I make them all available.

I have a list of all the modules:

pyFiles = ['makeCheckboxesInlineV1()', 'dropdownboxesInlineV1()', 'createhtmlTableInlineV1()', 'makeRBsInlineV2()', 'readLinesTextboxesInlineV3()', 'makeThankyouPHPInlineV1()']

How do I assign myString to any 1 of the modules above when I run makeWebpage.py in bash?