[Python-Dev] Possible patch for functools partial - Interested?

Isaac Morland ijmorlan at uwaterloo.ca
Fri May 7 22:15:35 CEST 2010


On Fri, 7 May 2010, VanL wrote:

> I make no effort to look for functional equality between two different
> functions. too many side effects could go off trying to make that work,
> and it would still be only inconsistently right. (IIRC, doing it
> completely is NP-hard.)

Actually, doing it completely is flat-out impossible.

Godel, Halting Problem, and all that.

So you don't need to apologize for not doing it ;-)

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