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why does this code return a TypeError: 'str' object is not callable TypeError: 'str' object is not callable?

import string

def containsAny(stri, set):
    """Check whether 'str' contains ANY of the chars in 'set'"""
    return 1 in [c in stri for c in set]

a = containsAny("acde",list(string.ascii_uppercase()))

print "{}".format(a)
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    You should rename set to something different (e.g. char_set/iterable/sequence/seq) to avoid shadowing builtin set. Commented Apr 5, 2017 at 12:41

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string.ascii_uppercase is a string, therefore you get an error when trying to call it by adding the ().

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