Issue #10518: Bring back the callable() builtin.
Approved by Guido (BDFL) and Georg (RM).
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 1c3ee12..34d583a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -121,6 +121,19 @@
Bytes objects can also be created with literals, see :ref:`strings`.
+.. function:: callable(object)
+
+ Return :const:`True` if the *object* argument appears callable,
+ :const:`False` if not. If this returns true, it is still possible that a
+ call fails, but if it is false, calling *object* will never succeed.
+ Note that classes are callable (calling a class returns a new instance);
+ instances are callable if their class has a :meth:`__call__` method.
+
+ .. versionadded:: 3.2
+ This function was first removed in Python 3.0 and then brought back
+ in Python 3.2.
+
+
.. function:: chr(i)
Return the string representing a character whose Unicode codepoint is the integer