other ways to check for <type 'function'>?

[Fredrik Lundh]

John Roth wrote:

> PEP 3100 specifies that the callable builtin is
> to be removed in Python 3.0, together with what
> I presume is the underlying C support for the
> function.

PEP 3100 is not even close to being finalized, and does not apply to 
Python 2.X.

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