Function question

[Scott David Daniels]

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:22:41 +0000 (UTC), huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com (Huaiyu Zhu) wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:55:47 -0500, John <nobody at nobody.com> wrote:
> >...What I want to do is:
> >I want to get 'a' dynamically..
> >But once a value is decided, I want a separate function (say, new_add) that
> >does
> >new_add(b) (equals to) add(a,b)
> >
> >That is, I want the function definition to be dynamic.
> >
> >Would that be possible? Any comment would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> The easiest way With Python 2.2:
> 
> >>> def f1(a):
> ....    def f2(b):
> ....       return a+b
> ....    return f2
> .... 
or check 
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52549

for "curry ".

if you have a function qqq(a, b, ...), 
nf = curry(qqq,v) 
makes nf a function like qqq(b, ...).
The trickiness in curry is coping with some args without knowing
how many args the function is supposed to take.

-Scott