Hello everybody,
I recently stumbled across the proposal of removing `callable` in Python 3000 (http://python.org/peps/pep-3000.html) catching an exception instead, maybe something like this:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] mize]$ python2.3
Python 2.3.3 (#1, Apr 6 2004, 01:47:39)
[GCC 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> i = 5
>>> i()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: 'int' object is not callable
>>>
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This is not an option for e.g. IDEs as some functions might actually do something when called ;-) and I like `callable` for introspection.
Other ways would be to check for the `__call__` attribute or use several methods of the `inspect`-Module, both of which are not better than `callable` IMHO.
Regards Mirko -- Insert a sig please. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
