function that counts...

[Jerry Hill]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:25 PM, superpollo <utente at esempio.net> wrote:
> Jerry Hill ha scritto:
>>        sumofdigits = sum(int(char) for char in str(testval))
>
> this line gives me this:
>
> TypeError: 'int' object is not callable
>
> is it some new feature in >2.5 ?

No, sum() has been a builtin since Python 2.3.  Based on your first
post, you have probably shadowed the builtin "sum" function by
assigning an integer to a variable named "sum".

-- 
Jerry