[issue1706256] Give Partial the ability to skip positionals

[John Ehresman]

John Ehresman <jpe at wingware.com> added the comment:

Commenting because this was brought up on python-dev -- I'd like this,
primarily for the string method & itertools optimization.  It's ugly,
but it would be better than writing C code.  The alternative might be to
somehow optimize trivial functions to execute without bytecode, but that
would be considerably harder.

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