[Tutor] Can't use builtin function objects like user defined objects

[Gerrit Holl]

<quote name="Jason Stokes" date="952100675" email="jstok@bluedog.apana.org.au">
> Consider the following:
> 
> >> testtext = ['Four', 'lines', 'of', 'text',]
> >> def myprint(item):
> ...    print item
> ...
> >>> result = map(print, testtext)
>   File "<string>", line 1
>      map(print, testtext)
>              ^
>  SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >>> result = map(myprint, testtext)
> Four
> lines
> of
> text
> >>>
> 
> Clearly I can't use "print" the same way I use "myprint".  Why?

"print" is not a function, print is a statement.
</quote>

regards,
Gerrit.

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