28/05/2024
Python tip;
I have an object; how can I Pythonically tell if it is callable?
A callable object is anything that you can call using parentheses () and optionally pass arguments to. These objects essentially act like functions and can be executed to produce some output or perform an action. To know if an object is callable, you can use the built-in callable() function. The callable() function takes an object as an argument and returns a Boolean value indicating whether the object is callable or not. Below, we use the function to check if the two objects, a string and a function, are callable: