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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2022-10-11 19:49:23 -0700
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gh-95276: Add callable entry to the glossary (GH-95738)
(cherry picked from commit e3bf125c81d5da0734429c1cb6ae75e6086e35ae) Co-authored-by: MonadChains <monadchains@gmail.com>
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A list of bytecode instructions can be found in the documentation for
:ref:`the dis module <bytecodes>`.
+ callable
+ A callable is an object that can be called, possibly with a set
+ of arguments (see :term:`argument`), with the following syntax::
+
+ callable(argument1, argument2, ...)
+
+ A :term:`function`, and by extension a :term:`method`, is a callable.
+ An instance of a class that implements the :meth:`~object.__call__`
+ method is also a callable.
+
callback
A subroutine function which is passed as an argument to be executed at
some point in the future.