Christophe wrote: > Sybren Stuvel a écrit : > > 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. > > I don't think it's a good idea because when you place a try catch block > around a function call, you'll catch any exception thrown by the > function itself and not only the "cannot be called" exception.
A little experimentation shows that when something is not callable always a TypeError which evaluates to "'<type>' object is not callable", so you can refine the try/catch with this information py> x = 1 py> x() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? py> x = '' py> x() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: 'str' object is not callable py> class x: ... pass ... py> x() <__main__.x instance at 0x1002eef38> py> def x(): py. pass py. py> x() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
