Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I know, all it would take to allow modules to be callable > would be a single change to the module type, the equivalent of: > > def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs): > try: > # Special methods are retrieved from the class, not > # from the instance, so we need to see if the > # instance has the right method. > callable = self.__dict__['__call__'] > except KeyError: > return None # or raise an exception? > return callable(self, *args, **kwargs) >
The error should throw "TypeError: 'module' object is not callable" just as it does today. Also, it shouldn't pass self through to callable: modules have functions not methods. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list