In article <gun8m0$qt...@panix3.panix.com>, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: > In article <mailman.247.1242441988.8015.python-l...@python.org>, > Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > >The second example is a call to the built-in function "list", [...] > Actually, list() is not a function: > >>> list > <type 'list'> > Rather, ``list`` is an object (specifically a ``type`` object) with a > __call__() method.
Yes. However, it is also true that "list" is listed under the Built-in Functions section of the Python Standard Library documentation and, wrt to explaining the OP's issue, quacks like a function here. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
