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Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky <at> gmail.com> writes:
> By this analogy, partial(f, ..., \*args) is right\_partial with '...'
> standing for any number of missing arguments.  I you want to specify
> exactly one missing argument, you would want to write partial(f, :,
> \*args), which is not a valid syntax even in Py3.

Yes, of course, but... the meaning which numpy attributes to Ellipsis does not
have to be the same in other libraries. Otherwise this meaning would have been
embedded in the interpreter itself, while it hasn't.