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Author ionelmc
Recipients Claudiu.Popa, belopolsky, christian.heimes, eric.snow, ethan.furman, ionelmc, jedwards, llllllllll, r.david.murray, rhettinger, steven.daprano, terry.reedy
Date 2015-04-20.15:38:24
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Raymond Hettinger <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

>
> That is clear but also isn't sufficient motivation.  The proposed change
> is unnecessary and not rooted in real use cases.  It is a semantic change
> to a long-standing view that callable() means having a __call__ method.
>

There is one use case: a lazy object proxy (there are some examples in the
earlier replies).  Eric proposed a CallableProxy/NonCallableProxy
dichtonomy but I don't really like that API (feels wrong and verbose).

> Please stop using the bug tracker to post li

​Sorry about that, I've replied through email and wasn't aware of
bugtracker etiquette.​

​The bugtracker doesn't have a nice way to reply to messages and it's
atrocious on a mobile device.​
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Date User Action Args
2015-04-20 15:38:24ionelmcsetrecipients: + ionelmc, rhettinger, terry.reedy, belopolsky, christian.heimes, steven.daprano, r.david.murray, Claudiu.Popa, ethan.furman, eric.snow, llllllllll, jedwards
2015-04-20 15:38:24ionelmclinkissue23990 messages
2015-04-20 15:38:24ionelmccreate