According to PEP 3000 the callable built-in function is going to be gone in Python 3.0. In the interest of staying compatible you may want to stick with the old way or call it and catch the exception as the previous comment mentioned. (PEP 3000 - http://www.python.org/peps/pep-3000.html)
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According to PEP 3000 the callable built-in function is going to be gone in Python 3.0. In the interest of staying compatible you may want to stick with the old way or call it and catch the exception as the previous comment mentioned. (PEP 3000 - http://www.python.org/peps/pep-3000.html)
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