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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:10:45 +1100
Subject: Re: I am out of trial and error again Lists
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> The name of the builtin is "list". It's a function* that takes an
> argument and uses it to construct a list, which it returns.
>
> *Actually it's a type object, and calling it causes an instance of the
> type to be constructed, but for all intents and purposes here it works
> exactly like a function.

It's callable, that's all that matters.

callable(object) -> bool
    Return whether the object is callable (i.e., some kind of function).

:)

ChrisA