On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 08:55:45 -0400, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote: > the right thing to do, or is there something cleaner? Will that work > for all callable values of param, regardless if it's a static function, > class method, built-in, etc? There's a callable(param) built-in function, dating back to Python 1.2. --amk