[Python-ideas] Fix that broken callable builtin

[Ionel Cristian Mărieș]

Yes indeed, that's one way but I wouldn't want to monkeypatch the
`callable` builtin. People wouldn't expect that library would even dare
monkeypatch builtin.


Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> On 04/18, Ionel Cristian Mărieș wrote:
>
> > Also there's the issue about not being able to implement a true proxy (as
> > outlined before).
>
> Proxies are a bit of a pain.  But you can create your own callable
> function.
>
> Something like (untested):
>
> def callable(obj):
>     try:
>         func = obj.__call__
>         return True
>     except AttributeError:
>         return False
>
> --
> ~Ethan~
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