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A list of bytecode instructions can be found in the documentation for
:ref:`the dis module <bytecodes>`.

callable
A callable is an object that has the pointer :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_call`
not ``NULL`` and set to a function. Python functions and object methods
are callables. An instance of a class that implements the :meth:`~object.__call__`
method is also a callable.

callback
A subroutine function which is passed as an argument to be executed at
some point in the future.
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