Question

I am novice to python and I am trying to understand a basic error here . I am getting a TypeError: ‘list’ object is not callable error in the below code . Can somebody explain me what is wrong in my code ?

graph = {'a': ['b', 'c'], 'b': ['a', 'c'], 'c': ['b', 'd'], 'd': ['a'], 'e': ['a']}


def reachable(graph, node):
    res = [node]
    reachable = graph[node]
    for currentnode in reachable:
        if currentnode not in res :
            reachableNodes = reachable(graph,currentnode) << TypeError: 
            for newNode in reachableNodes:
                if newNode not in res :
                    res.append(newNode)
    return res 

Error : TypeError: ‘list’ object is not callable error

Answer 1

You’ve hidden the function name by doing reachable = graph[node]. Use a different name.