Bracketless function calls (a la Ruby) in Python.

bracketless.py

import inspect


class Bracketless(object):
    def __getattribute__(self, name):
        try:
            attr = object.__getattribute__(self, name)
            if callable(attr):
                args, __, __, __ = inspect.getargspec(attr)
                if len(args) == 1: # 1 for `self`
                    return attr()
            return attr
        except Exception, e:
            raise e
        raise AttributeError

    def method(self, name):
        return object.__getattribute__(self, name)


class Person(Bracketless):
    def __init__(self, forename, surname):
        self.forename = forename
        self.surname = surname

    def full_name(self):
        print 'Python can be *just like Ruby*.'
        return '%s %s' % (self.forename, self.surname, )


if __name__ == '__main__':
    guido = Person('Guido', 'van Rossum')
    print guido.full_name
    print guido.method('full_name')