In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ritesh Raj
Sarraf wrote:

> Also,
> f = file ('some_file.jpg')
> 
> throws an error.
> "str object is not callable"

This happens if you rebind names of builtins.  In this case to a string. 
Don't do that!

In [5]:file
Out[5]:<type 'file'>

In [6]:file = 'foo.txt'

In [7]:file
Out[7]:'foo.txt'

In [8]:file('x')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
exceptions.TypeError                      Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/bj/<ipython console>

TypeError: 'str' object is not callable


Ciao,
        Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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