On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 3:31 PM Gregory Ewing
wrote:
>
> Chris Angelico wrote:
> > At the moment, it isn't defined particularly as either a function or a
> > class,
>
> Well, it's listed under a section called "Functions", so the reader
> could be forgiven for assuming that it's a function.
Ah, f
Chris Angelico wrote:
At the moment, it isn't defined particularly as either a function or a
class,
Well, it's listed under a section called "Functions", so the reader
could be forgiven for assuming that it's a function. From a high
level point of view, it is -- you call it and it returns somet
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 3:02 PM dieter wrote:
>
> Arup Rakshit writes:
> > From docs https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.chain
> > I see that itertools.chain is defined as a function.
>
> Maybe, it would have been better to state that "chain"
> is a "callable": something w
Arup Rakshit writes:
> From docs https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.chain I
> see that itertools.chain is defined as a function.
Maybe, it would have been better to state that "chain"
is a "callable": something which can be called on arguments.
For many people, "callable
Well. I thought so far, all class in python is defined as CamelCase. A function
can be a class to is something I am surprised. So does this mean, any callable
function if produce an instance is called class in Python?
Thanks,
Arup Rakshit
a...@zeit.io
> On 11-Apr-2019, at 12:53 AM, Calvin
Because it is. Many things are classes. calling itertools.chain(a, b)
creates an itertools.chain instance that you can iterate over. What else
did you think it would be?
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 3:17 PM Arup Rakshit wrote:
> From docs https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.cha
>From docs https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.chain I
>see that itertools.chain is defined as a function. But then why
>inspect.isclass(chain) is saying it as class.
from itertools import chain
inspect.isclass(chain)
# True
Thanks,
Arup Rakshit
a...@zeit.io
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