[Tutor] something is fundamentally wrong...
Martin Walsh
mwalsh at mwalsh.org
Sat Aug 9 21:59:00 CEST 2008
Joshua Nikkel wrote:
> IDLE 1.2.2 ==== No Subprocess ====
>>>> s = 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'
>>>> len(s)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in <module>
> len(s)
> TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
My guess would be that you've reassigned the name 'len' to some other
object, in this case a string. Does the error persist after you restart
IDLE (or Restart Shell from the Shell menu)?
HTH,
Marty
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