functon invoke or not

[Mitya Sirenef]

On Wed 09 Jan 2013 03:23:56 AM EST, skyworld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see someone's code as this:
>
> class ABC: ....
>      def __init__(self, env):
>           .......
>           self.jmpTable['batchQ']['submit_job']  = self.lsf_submit
>           .......
>      def lsf_submit(self, cmd,env):
>           .....
>
> what confused me is why there is no parentheses for self.lsf_submit in
> "self.jmpTable['batchQ']['submit_job']  = self.lsf_submit"? what does
> this piece of code mean? thanks.


Presumably it will be called at a later point:

def f(): print 'foo'

lst = [f]
# la la
lst[0]()


HTH,  -m


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