[IPython-User] set and list in Notebook

[Jon Olav Vik]

caoimhinp <kevin.gp <at> gmail.com> writes:

> dup_list = [1, 1, 3, 7, 3, 5, 8, 2, 4, 5]
> print dup_list
> now_a_set = set(dup_list)
> print now_a_set
> now_list = list(now_a_set) #this should work and doesn't
> TypeError: 'list' object is not callable

This works fine on my system (IPython 0.13beta, Python 2.7). Are you sure you 
haven't overwritten the name "list"? What does "print list" give you?