On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > 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))
If staticmethod is going to be callable then classmethod should be callable also. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
