On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:05:59 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > Hello! > > I just stumbled over a case where Python (2.7 and 3.3 on MS Windows) > fail to detect that an object is a function, using the callable() > builtin function. Investigating, I found out that the object was indeed > not callable, but in a way that was very unexpected to me: [...] > X.test2[0]() # TypeError: 'staticmethod' object is not callable > > > Bug or feature?
In my opinion, a bug. I thought I had actually submitted it to the bug tracker, but apparently I was a shameful slacker and did not. However there was a discussion in this thread: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/109090.html Here's a simpler demonstration of the issue: assert callable(staticmethod(lambda: None)) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
