TypeError: 'list' object is not callable in python

Question

I am novice to Python and following a tutorial. There is an example of list in the tutorial :

example = list(\'easyhoss\')

Now

Answer 1

I was getting this error for another reason:

I accidentally had a blank list created in my __init__ which had the same name as a method I was trying to call (I had just finished refactoring a bit and the variable was no longer needed, but I missed it when cleaning up). So when I was instantiating the class and trying to call the method, it thought I was referencing the list object, not the method:

class DumbMistake:
    def __init__(self, k, v):
        self.k = k
        self.v = v
        self.update = []

    def update(self):
        // do updates to k, v, etc

if __name__ == '__main__':
    DumbMistake().update('one,two,three', '1,2,3')

So it was trying to assign the two strings to self.update[] instead of calling the update() method. Removed the variable and it all worked as intended. Hope this helps someone.