Python TypeError list object is not callable

Question

I am getting an error while executing a python program. The line at which error is occurring is as follows:

print  wordlists(len(words))

This the error I am getting:

TypeError: 'list' object is not callable.

Answer 1

The error says the list is not callable because you are trying to access/use a python list but using parenthesis for it. Parenthesis are used to call a function and because a list is not a function, you get this error. To access/use a python list, you should use square brackets. Try this:

print worldlists[len(words)]

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Comments

no its not coming even we use square brackets its showing that in the bracket its hould be indexing or slicing but not range

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Hi, @Ganapuram,

Could you please post here what you are trying to do and what exactly your error is? It will be helpful for me to investigate on that.

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by doing so i m getting ##even we use square brackets its showing that in the bracket its hould be indexing or slicing but not range##

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Try to print your output within a bracket.

print (worldlists[len(words)])