On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 15:37 +0100, Stef Mientki wrote: > If I call a parameterless function without brackets at the end, > the function is not performed, but ... > I don't get an error message ??? > > Is this normal behavior ?
Yes. If you "call" a function without brackets, it's not a call. Remember that functions are first class objects that can be passed around like any other object. Hence, Python needs the distinction between x = foo() # Assign the *result* of calling foo to x and x = foo # Assign the *function* foo itself to x. You don't get an error message because a function name without parentheses is a valid expression that refers to that function. Hope this helps, Carsten. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list