Functions help

[sffjunkie at gmail.com]

On Sunday, 23 February 2014 05:43:17 UTC, Scott W Dunning  wrote:
 
> I had a question regarding functions.  Is there a way to call a function multiple times without recalling it over and over.  Meaning is there a way I can call a function and then add *5 or something like that?

The following answers your question but is probably not a method you want to employ. 

from functools import partial 

def a(ch): 
  print(ch) 

def b(x): 
  print(x + 4) 

[x() for x in [partial(a, 'd'), partial(b, 10)]*5] 

Produces 

d 
14 
d 
14 
d 
14 
d 
14 
d 
14 

--Simon