Sybren Stuvel schrieb: > elderic enlightened us with: >> are there other ways than the ones below to check for <type >> 'function'> in a python script? > > First of all, why would you want to? If you want to call the object > as a function, just do so. Handle the exception that is raised when > it's raised.
That's an advice I've heard a few times to often. I'm totally buying duck-typing. Yet the advice of simply calling a function to determine that it is one isn't sound in a lot of cases where you want to use it as callback later on. E.g. the turbogears DataGrid can get either a string or a callable passed as column-data-provider. But which of these two options is used must be known at construction time, not at later calling time. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
