User defined method as variable or argument

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You must fix the end of the script a little bit to get it work:

# Define simple function that takes an object and method as arguments
def my_function(the_object, the_method):
    getattr(the_object, the_method)()


# Call the function with args
my_function(my_obj, "describe")

You called my_function with the describe variable which hasn't been defined. And inside my_function you called the method also bad. You must get the object method with getattr(object, name_of_the_method) and then call it with () - so getattr(object, name_of_the_method)()