how to find out if an object is a class?

[Stefan Behnel]

Miles wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> I recently had the reverse case that a (stupidly implemented) extension module
>> required a callback function and I wanted to pass a function wrapped in a
>> wrapper object. That failed, because it specifically checked for the argument
>> being a function, not just a callable object. I had to pull quite a number of
>> tricks to reimplement the wrapper class as a function (thank god, it's Python!).
> 
> You really only needed one trick:
> 
> def functionize(callable):
>     return lambda *args, **kwargs: callable(*args, **kwargs)

Congratulations, you found the trivial case.

Stefan