2009/9/1 Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz>: > Brett Cannon wrote: >> >> It isn't like it is checking >> explicitly for a function or method, just that it can be called which >> seems reasonable to me (unless PyCallable_Check() is as off as >> callable() was). > > I think it just checks that there's something in the > tp_call slot, which is reasonable -- if it's empty, > there's no way that calling the object could ever > succeed, so you might as well fail early.
It depends on whether you're keeping the "callable" object around or not. Somebody could add a __call__ method later. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
