[Python-Dev] Partial function application 'from the right'

[Collin Winter]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Collin Winter <collinw <at> 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 partial_right.
>
> The arguments for and against the patch could be brought against partial()
> itself, so I don't understand the -1's at all.

Quite so, but that doesn't justify adding more capabilities to partial().

Collin Winter