Re: [Python-ideas] Please consider adding partialclass to functools

On 5/3/2018 2:34 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote:

Done: https://bugs.python.org/issue33419

I agree with Steven. Add the functools 'experts' as nosy. And add links to the SO items.

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 10:42 PM Steven D'Aprano mailto:steve@pearwood.info> wrote:

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 02:46:09PM -0700, Neil Girdhar wrote: > Essentially, functools.partial is almost good enough for specifying some of > the parameters of an object's initializer, but the partial object doesn't > respond properly to issubclass. [...]

I think that ought to be an uncontroversial enough change that it can be taken to the bug tracker. I think you should just raise a feature enhancement request for 3.8 on the tracker, and link to this thread on the mailing list archives in case some discussion follows.

-- Terry Jan Reedy