[Python-ideas] Bring back callable()

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 11/23/2010 6:01 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>
>> > The substitute of writing `isinstance(x, collections.Callable)` is
>> > not good, 1) because it's wordier 2) because collections is really not
>> > an intuitive place where to look for a Callable ABC.
>>
>> I thnk it should be in the abc module, along with WeakSet
>
> Me too.

I was not around here, and although I looked for, I didn't find this on the web:

What was the reasoning for removing "callable" in the first place?

  js
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