help with str()

[Anton Vredegoor]

Tuxtrax wrote:

>No dice. In every case, I get the following error:
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "headhunter.py", line 317, in ?
>    response, poster = n.xhdr("from", 
>first_available_message+"-"+str(last_message))
>TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Maybe this rings a bell:

 Python 2.3.2 (#1, Oct  9 2003, 12:03:29) 
 [GCC 3.3.1 (cygming special)] on cygwin
 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
information.
 >>> str(5)
 '5'
 >>> str = "don't do this"
 >>> str(5)
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
 TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
 >>> 

Anton