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morkalork on Sept 5, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lesser known parts of Python standard library

I wish there were some syntactic sugar for partial but knowing how patterns like that get abused in other languages maybe it is for the better that there isn't.

globular-toast on Sept 5, 2024 [–]

What would it look like? Wouldn't it just be lambda?

morkalork on Sept 6, 2024 | | [–]

Yes, sugar so instead of having `partial(foo, w=1, x=2)` or `lambda y,z: foo(1,2,y,z)` just instead something like `foo(1,2,_,_)`

BiteCode_dev on Sept 5, 2024 | | [–]

I wish it would at least be a method on any callable.

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