[Python-Dev] any support for a methodcaller HOF? (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Feb 3 18:13:08 CET 2006

Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> writes:

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 07:00:26 -0800, Alex Martelli <aleaxit at gmail.com> wrote:

On Feb 3, 2006, at 6:47 AM, Giovanni Bajo wrote: ... use itemgetter and friends but the "correct" way of doing a defferred "x[1]" should let you write "x[1]" in the code. This is my main opposition to partial/itemgetter/attrgetter/methodcaller: they allow deferred execution using a syntax which is not equivalent to that of immediate execution. I understand your worry re the syntax issue. So what about Michael Hudson's "placeholder class" idea, where X[1] returns the callable that will do x[1] when called, etc? Looks elegant to me...

I'd just like to point out here that I only mentioned this class; I didn't suggest it for anything :)

FWIW,

<http://cvs.twistedmatrix.com/cvs/sandbox/glyph/eacher.py?view=markup&rev=12804> <http://cvs.twistedmatrix.com/cvs/sandbox/cake.py?view=markup&rev=12804>

Yow. My implementation was somewhere in between those for length, I think (and pre-dated new style classes, which probably changes things).

Cheers, mwh

-- I'm sorry, was my bias showing again? :-) -- William Tanksley, 13 May 2000

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