Testing if an object is a function

[Claus Tondering]

If I want to test if an object, x, is an integer, I can call
isinstance(x, int).

But what do I do if I want to test if x is a function?

I can do this:

if isinstance(x, type(lambda: None)): ...

But it does not seem very elegant to me.

Surely there is a simpler way to specify a type object that is the type
of a function.

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Claus Tondering

[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: Testing if an object is a function

Claus Tondering wrote:

But what do I do if I want to test if x is a function?
>
I can do this:
>
if isinstance(x, type(lambda: None)): ...
>
But it does not seem very elegant to me.
>
Surely there is a simpler way to specify a type object that is the type
of a function.

if callable(x):
...

(if you really want a function object, and not anything that's likely to be possible
to call, see the "types" module)

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[Claus Tondering]

Re: Testing if an object is a function

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

if callable(x):

Perfect. Thank you.

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Claus Tondering