Passing functions with arguments to another function in Python?

This is what lambda is for:

def perform(f):
    f()

perform(lambda: action1())
perform(lambda: action2(p))
perform(lambda: action3(p, r))

Do you mean this?

def perform(fun, *args):
    fun(*args)

def action1(args):
    # something

def action2(args):
    # something

perform(action1)
perform(action2, p)
perform(action3, p, r)