Comment 2 for bug 355837
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| Robert Kern (robert-kern) wrote Re: [Bug 355837] [NEW] error message "str object not callable" when not calling string | #2 |
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On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 18:34, Brian Granger <email address hidden> wrote:
> str is a Python built-in. You reassign it to a string. Because
> IPython uses the str builtin internally, things go bad in a serious
> way. This is probably called by readline as you type. This is not an
> IPython bug. Just don't use built-in names for your own variables.
It's probably worth looking into, though. Why does IPython evaluate
'str' in the user's namespace? Assigning to 'str' in the user's
namespace certainly doesn't affect the __builtins__ (if it did, that's
definitely a bug!)
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Robert Kern
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enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
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