How do you call an instance of a class in Python?
This is inspired by a question I just saw, "Change what is returned by calling class instance", but was quickly answered with __repr__ (and accepted, so the questioner did not actually intend to call the instance). Now calling an instance of a class can be done like this: instance_of_object = object() instance_of_object() but we'll get an error, something like TypeError: 'object' object is not callable . This behavior is defined in the CPython source here. So to ensure we have this question on Stackoverflow: How do you actually call an instance of a class in Python? You call an instance of a