In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Aahz) wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Ned Deily <[email protected]> wrote: > >The second example is a call to the built-in function "list", [...] > Actually, list() is not a function: > >>> list > <type 'list'> > Rather, ``list`` is an object (specifically a ``type`` object) with a > __call__() method.
Yes. However, it is also true that "list" is listed under the Built-in Functions section of the Python Standard Library documentation and, wrt to explaining the OP's issue, quacks like a function here. -- Ned Deily, [email protected] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
