Comment on Draft Pep ver 4 -- Psuedo Deprecations of Builtins

[Huaiyu Zhu]

John Roth <johnroth at ameritech.net> wrote:
>I strongly disagree about apply(). The only use I've found for it
>varies the function which it calls, not the parameter lists! Having
>variable parameter lists doesn't hack it - I need the variable
>function.

>>> from math import *
>>> a = (2.3,)
>>> for f in [sin, cos, sqrt]: print apply(f, a)
... 
0.745705212177
-0.66627602128
1.51657508881
>>> for f in [sin, cos, sqrt]: print f(*a)
... 
0.745705212177
-0.66627602128
1.51657508881

Huaiyu