[Python-Dev] PEP 318 - generality of list; restrictions on

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Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Mar 10 11:10:21 EST 2004


At 10:31 AM 3/10/04 -0500, Aahz wrote:

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something. I thought that a property contains a get descriptor, which makes it a kind of callable. Read-only properties contain a set descriptor that either does nothing or raises an exception. That doesn't affect whether the property is classified as a callable.

Properties are not callable.

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x=property() x() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in ? x() TypeError: 'property' object is not callable callable(property()) 0 callable(property(lambda x:None)) 0



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