[Python-Dev] Partial function application 'from the right'

[Scott David Daniels]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> ...
> In py3k, we could also use "..." (the Ellipsis object) to denote 
> places where an argument is missing, so that:
>     split_comma = partial(str.split, ..., ',')
> would do what you want.

Thus preventing any use of partial when an argument could be an
the Ellipsis instance.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org