Antoon Pardon wrote: > I have been reading http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3100/ > en there is written: > > To be removed: > ... > > callable(): just call the object and catch the exception > > ...
> Is there a chance this will be reconsidered? > There was some discussion on python-dev, which concluded that callable() in its current form is not very useful, since even when you know that something's callable, the call might fail as well because the callable doesn't have the correct signature. So, it's not impossible for Py3k to get an improved version of callable() including signature checking. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
