[Python-Dev] PEP 309: Partial method application

[Nick Coghlan]

Brett Cannon wrote:
>>>What I think you want is not a partial method, instead, you want to
>>>turn a method into a standard function, and in a 'virtual' way.
>>>
>>>So I would propose the syntax
>>>
>>>  lst.sort(key=virtual.lower) # where virtual is functional.virtual
>>
>>I like this, but would hope for a different name -- the poor word
>>'virtual' has been abused enough by C++.
> 
> Yeah, me too.  Possible name are 'delayed', 'lazyattr', or just plain
> 'lazy' since it reminds me of Haskell.

Hmm, "methodcall"?

As in:
   lst.sort(key=methodcall.lower)

Where "methodcall" is something like what Shane described:

   class methodcall:
       def __getattr__(self, name):
           def delayedcall(*args, **kwds):
               return getattr(args[0], name)(*args[1:], **kwds)
           return delayedcall
   methodcall = methodcall()

> 
> Oh, when should we think of putting reduce into functional?  I
> remember this was discussed when it was realized reduce was the only
> functional built-in that is not covered by itertools or listcomps.

I expected functional.map, functional.filter and functional.reduce to all 
exist in 2.5.

Cheers,
Nick.

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