[SciPy-User] Using special functions with keyword arguments

[Dave]

Pauli Virtanen <pav <at> iki.fi> writes:

> 
> Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:00:57 -0800, Lutz 
Maibaum kirjoitti:
> [clip]
> > Is it still possible to call sph_harm 
(and presumably other special
> > functions) with keyword arguments? 
> 
> Ufuncs in general don't support keyword 
arguments, so no.
> 
> > The reason I am trying to do this is
> > that I would like to wrap sph_harm in 
a functools.partial object that
> > takes only a single argument, and that 
I can then pass to
> > multiprocessing.Pool.map.
> 
> You can probably still achieve that in 
some way.
> 

I've run into this restriction before in 
the context of numba generated ufuncs. Is 
there some fundamental problem supporting 
kwargs in ufuncs or is it technically 
possible to do?

Thanks,
Dave