More intuitive partial function application in Python

Re:More intuitive partial function application in Python by maximilianroos on Sunday February 20, 2022 @08:54PM (#30411113)

Great to see this! Thanks for working on it.

Could you compare it to functools.partial?

In the example on the Readme:

  import better_partial as bp
  
  @bp.partial
  def some_operation(x, p1, p2):
    return (x + p1) * p2

It claims that the bp approach is superior because:

  func = some_operation(bp._, 10, 20)

...is better than:

  func = lambda x: some_operation(x, 10, 20)

But is it better than just:

  partial(some_operation, p1=10, p2=20)

?

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Re:More intuitive partial function application in Python by cgrimm1994 on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:30AM (#30416232)

Yes! I definitely need to beef up the README. I wrote up a gist for some other commenters below which I can incorporate as part of the justification.

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Re:More intuitive partial function application in Python by R0b0t1 on Sunday February 20, 2022 @10:00PM (#30411483)

  partial(some_operation, p1=10, p2=20)

Suffers from inconsistent syntax compared to normal function call. This is probably a negative, but it could be a positive.

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