Re: python newbie

Steven D'Aprano <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As far as I know, all it would take to allow modules to be callable
would be a single change to the module type, the equivalent of:

def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
try:
# Special methods are retrieved from the class, not
# from the instance, so we need to see if the
# instance has the right method.
callable = self.__dict__['__call__']
except KeyError:
return None # or raise an exception?
return callable(self, *args, **kwargs)


The error should throw "TypeError: 'module' object is not callable" just as
it does today.

Also, it shouldn't pass self through to callable: modules have functions
not methods.
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