[Python-3000] PEP 3100 Comments

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon May 8 03:08:42 CEST 2006


Talin wrote:

> How about instead of 'callable', an "isFunction' test to go along
> with 'isSequence' and 'isMapping'. (You aren't getting rid of those -
> I hope...?)

Yes, we are! And for much the same reasons!

And *how* exactly would you implement your isFunction test
so as to detect the "naive, everyday concept of a function"
that you seem to want, in a way that does any better job
than the current callable()?

--
Greg


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