[issue12428] functools test coverage

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

Raymond, do we care whether or not the pure Python version of functools.partial supports inheritance and instance testing?

The constructor is technically documented as returning a "partial object" rather than a simple staticmethod instance with additional attributes.

My own preference leans towards keeping the closure based implementation due to its simplicity, which is what makes it particularly useful as a cross-check on the C implementation.

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