Talin wrote:
> This 'isFunction' test that I am thinking of would only return true for
> user defined functions, built-in functions, and similar objects; It
> would not return true for classes or other objects that are technically
> functions in a mathematically pure sense, but which normal people don't
> think of as functions.
But what would it return for a user-defined class
with a __call__ method?
And if the answer to that is "True", what would it return
for the following class:
class AmIAFunctionOrNot(object):
def __call__(self, *args, **kwds):
raise TypeError("This object cannot be called.")
> In other words, a function that does what most people expect it to, by
> conforming to their intuitive idea of what a function is,
Intuitive ideas are too fuzzy to translate into code.
A rigorous specification is needed.
--
Greg
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