Testing if an object is a function

[Fredrik Lundh]

Claus Tondering wrote:

> But what do I do if I want to test if x is a function?
>
> I can do this:
>
>     if isinstance(x, type(lambda: None)): ...
>
> But it does not seem very elegant to me.
>
> Surely there is a simpler way to specify a type object that is the type
> of a function.

    if callable(x):
        ...

(if you really want a function object, and not anything that's likely to be possible
to call, see the "types" module)

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