On Sunday 19 June 2011 08:39:43 Alan Gauld wrote: > "Lisi" <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote > > > It does indeed. Thank you, both of you. I have clearly not got the > > terms > > command, method, function (and feature?) clearly sorted out in my > > mind, so > > that is obviously where I need to go. I am supposed to be > > researching > > import, but I have not yet succeeded in seeing why it is a problem. > > So I'll > > switch to looking up method, function etc. > > Add "callable" to your list of search terms. > Python has the concept of "callable objects" and > you can call a callable by using parentheses. > You can also test whether an object is callable > or not: > > for obj in list_of_objects: > if callable(obj): > print obj() # call obj first > else: > print obj # just use the obj value > > HTH,
Thank you! Lisi _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
