On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Mike Klaas <mike.klaas@gmail.com> wrote:

And yet, python isn't confined to mathematical notation. *, ** are both overloaded for use in argument lists to no-one's peril, AFAICT.

Certainly, but there is no danger of confusion them for multiplication in context, whereas:

split_comma = partial(str.split, ..., ',')

to me looks like "make ',' the last argument" rather than "make ',' the second argument".

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