On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > The name of the builtin is "list". It's a function* that takes an > argument and uses it to construct a list, which it returns. > > *Actually it's a type object, and calling it causes an instance of the > type to be constructed, but for all intents and purposes here it works > exactly like a function.
It's callable, that's all that matters. callable(object) -> bool Return whether the object is callable (i.e., some kind of function). :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list