Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: The code you show works fine for me.
The error you're seeing is almost certainly the result of inadvertently using 'str' as a variable name earlier in the IDLE session: Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 11 2010, 00:51:29) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> str = '4bf3e914' >>> hell = str(123) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'str' object is not callable >>> help(str) no Python documentation found for '4bf3e914' ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8878> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com