On 5/31/07, Warren Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In summation: > I started this thread asking why c[:]() wouldn't work
Because it's not part of the language. Did you read something that made you think it would work? Or are you proposing a change to the language? I think you're better off providing the functionality yourself, for your own containers. Luckily, it's pretty easy to do. Mikael Olofsson showed you how to create a custom list that, when called, will call each of the items it contains. Then you can use the exact code you wrote in your first post, and it will do what you want. > I did not hijack another thread You really did. In the first message you sent, we see the following header: > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What you probably did was click 'Reply' on a message in an existing thread, then change the Subject line and delete the quoted message. That doesn't start a new thread. That creates a new post in the old thread, with a new subject line and a completely unrelated message to the rest of the thread. If you're using a reader that groups everything by Subject line, it may even look like you started a new thread, but anyone who relies on the rest of the headers to build threads correctly will see differently. > I posted working examples (with one typo, not quoted here) I retyped the code you posted in the first post, and did not get the same results as you. Specifically: >>> def a: print 'a' SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> def b: print 'b' SyntaxError: invalid syntax those obviously were not copied from working code. >>> c[:]() TypeError: 'tuple' object is not callable this has the correct spelling of 'tuple' in it. Your post misspelled it. and finally, >>> c[0]() a >>> c[:][0] <function a at 0x00CBB130> I don't know how you could have gotten c[:][0] to print 'a', but it wasn't by running all of the code you presented to us. -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
