Is there a way to store a function in a list or dictionary so that when the index (or key) is called it fires off the stored function?

Functions are first class objects in Python and so you can dispatch using a dictionary. For example, if foo and bar are functions, and dispatcher is a dictionary like so.

dispatcher = {'foo': foo, 'bar': bar}

Note that the values are foo and bar which are the function objects, and NOT foo() and bar().

To call foo, you can just do dispatcher['foo']()

EDIT: If you want to run multiple functions stored in a list, you can possibly do something like this.

dispatcher = {'foobar': [foo, bar], 'bazcat': [baz, cat]}

def fire_all(func_list):
    for f in func_list:
        f()

fire_all(dispatcher['foobar'])