[Python-Dev] Partial function application 'from the right' (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Feb 3 20:53:49 CET 2009

Collin Winter <collinw gmail.com> writes:

Have any of the original objections to Calvin's patch (http://bugs.python.org/issue1706256) been addressed? If not, I don't see anything in these threads that justify resurrecting it. I still haven't seen any real code presented that would benefit from partial.skip or partialright.

The arguments for and against the patch could be brought against partial() itself, so I don't understand the -1's at all.

I know I hardly every use partial() (apart from the performance aspect, it looks like a completely useless addition to me), but from a performance standpoint, partial.skip has as much usefulness as partial() itself.

Regards

Antoine.

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