On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, at 14:04, Chris Angelico wrote: > If by "constant" you mean that they are immutable, then maybe; there > aren't very many mutable callables (by comparison to the huge number > of functions). But you can't assume that a function is as constant as > a string literal.
I meant a constant in the sense that the name is never intended to be and never in fact reassigned. The kind of thing that when they're *not* callable, PEP8 says should be named in ALL_CAPS. > verbose = print > if args.quiet: > def verbose(*a, **kw): pass > > Is 'verbose' now a variable, a function, a constant, a global, or > what? How should it be highlighted? I already conceded that this kind of thing is subjective around the edges, what more do you want? My opinion would be that it should be highlighted as a function, but I'm not sure how I'd define the criteria for this. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/NPYFTJPKYCDPUM5OMBEOD5UPZ5GXU5NY/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
