2009/2/28 Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>: > > "Richard Lovely" <roadier...@googlemail.com> wrote > >> > Sorry, I should have pointed out that you will need to redefine >> > all your functions to accept a parameter. >> >> Always makes me smile when (experienced) people redesign the wheel... >> >> From the docs (http://www.python.org/doc/2.6/library/functools.html): >> >> "The partial() is used for partial function application which >> “freezes” some portion of a function’s arguments and/or keywords >> resulting in a new object with a simplified signature." > > I'm not sure how you would use partial in this case, I still think you'd > need to add a parameter to the function definitions. partial would > remove the need for lambda in some of the other solutions though. > > But an interesting module that I've not seen before. Although since it was > only introduced in 2.5 I'm not surprised, I've been focussing more > on v3 lately rather than the new stuff in 2.5/2.6 (in fact I don't even > have 2.6 loaded yet and only have 2.5 on one PC...) > > Thanks for highlighting it. > > -- > Alan G > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
Ooops... quoted the wrong message. That should have been quoting the message about lambdas... -- Richard "Roadie Rich" Lovely, part of the JNP|UK Famile www.theJNP.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
