[Python-ideas] Make partial a built-in

[Stephan Houben]

Hi all,

I would like to add that I don't believe that discoverability is
always better in the `builtins' module.

I personally had the experience of going over itertools, where
I found 'zip_longest', but I couldn't find a 'zip_shortest'.

Only after some googling I found out it was called `zip' and it lived in
`builtins'.

Stephan

2016-09-20 7:23 GMT+02:00 Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de>:

> אלעזר schrieb am 19.09.2016 um 17:59:
> > If at all, it should be function.bind(). It was discussed and dropped; I
> > don't remember why, but one problem is that it looks like an in-place
> > modification.
>
> IMHO, the main drawback of that solution is that it only works for
> functions and not for any other callable in Python. It would introduce an
> inconsistency without solving the problem in general.
>
> Stefan
>
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