callable() builtin-function

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 07:09:37PM -0500, Peter Hansen wrote:
> Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> > 
> > When it's probably more Pythonic to do:
> > 
> >     try:
> >         x = foo()
> >     except TypeError:
> >         x = foo
> > 
> 
> Of course, there is one potential problem with this, although the
> fix for it is not necessarily callable().  The problem is if
> the routine foo() really exists and is callable, but somewhere
> inside has a failure which raises a TypeError.  This might
> then be interpreted incorrectly.

Hence my comment about preferring to have a NotCallableError.  :)

-Andrew.