Re: Object Not Callable, float?

2009-11-30 Thread Terry Reedy
W. eWatson wrote: I think I understand it, but how does one prevent it from happening, or know it's the cause? That msg I got? Yes. The message 'x is not callable', where x is a name of something you expect to be callable (such as the builtin functions and classes), signals that x has been r

Re: Object Not Callable, float?

2009-11-30 Thread Nobody
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:07:53 -0500, Mel wrote: > In FORTRAN and PL/I words were un-reserved to a degree that's really > bizarre. A short post can't begin to do it justice -- let's just mention > that IF and THEN could be variable names, and DO 100 I=1.10 . The syntaxes > were carefully crafte

Re: Object Not Callable, float?

2009-11-29 Thread Ben Finney
"W. eWatson" writes: > I think I understand it, but how does one prevent it from happening, > or know it's the cause? That msg I got? Yes. The line of code was pretty clear: you were attempting to call an object, and the error message said the object's type doesn't support being called. More ge

Re: Object Not Callable, float?

2009-11-29 Thread Mel
W. eWatson wrote: > I think PL/I, FORTRAN, ALGOL, etc. have reserved words. Algol reserved syntactic tokens that resembled English words, but specified that they should be written in a different way from programmer-defined symbols, so no conflict was possible. Published algorithms might have t

Re: Object Not Callable, float?

2009-11-29 Thread Lie Ryan
On 11/30/2009 4:20 PM, W. eWatson wrote: John Bokma wrote: "W. eWatson" wrote: Yikes. Thanks very much. Python seems to act unlike other language in which words like float are reserved. I'll use asum. The problem is that there is a function sum and you creating a float sum: sum = 0.0 and

Re: Object Not Callable, float?

2009-11-29 Thread W. eWatson
John Bokma wrote: "W. eWatson" wrote: Yikes. Thanks very much. Python seems to act unlike other language in which words like float are reserved. I'll use asum. The problem is that there is a function sum and you creating a float sum: sum = 0.0 and mean = sum(hist) even if both could exis

Re: Object Not Callable, float?

2009-11-29 Thread John Bokma
"W. eWatson" wrote: > Yikes. Thanks very much. Python seems to act unlike other language in > which words like float are reserved. I'll use asum. The problem is that there is a function sum and you creating a float sum: sum = 0.0 and mean = sum(hist) even if both could exist side by side it

Re: Object Not Callable, float?

2009-11-29 Thread Carl Banks
On Nov 29, 8:14 pm, "W. eWatson" wrote: > Ben Finney wrote: > > "W. eWatson" writes: > > >> "C:\Sandia_Meteors\Sentinel_Development\Development_Sentuser+Utilities\sentuser\sentuser_20090103+hist.py", > >> line 467, in ShowHistogram > >>     mean = sum(hist) > >> TypeError: 'float' object is not c

Re: Object Not Callable, float?

2009-11-29 Thread W. eWatson
Ben Finney wrote: "W. eWatson" writes: "C:\Sandia_Meteors\Sentinel_Development\Development_Sentuser+Utilities\sentuser\sentuser_20090103+hist.py", line 467, in ShowHistogram mean = sum(hist) TypeError: 'float' object is not callable It means you're calling an object of type ‘float’. The

Re: Object Not Callable, float?

2009-11-29 Thread Ben Finney
"W. eWatson" writes: > "C:\Sandia_Meteors\Sentinel_Development\Development_Sentuser+Utilities\sentuser\sentuser_20090103+hist.py", > line 467, in ShowHistogram > mean = sum(hist) > TypeError: 'float' object is not callable It means you're calling an object of type ‘float’. The line where it

Object Not Callable, float?

2009-11-29 Thread W. eWatson
Here's an traceback error msg I get. Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python25\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1403, in __call__ return self.func(*args) File "C:\Sandia_Meteors\Sentinel_Development\Development_Sentuser+Utilities\sentuser\sentuser_200