[Python-ideas] Function to apply superset of arguments to a function

[Gerald Britton]

functools.partial

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Andrey Fedorov<anfedorov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've written a function [1] called apply_some which takes a set of keywords
> arguments, filters only those a function is expecting, and calls the
> function with only those arguments. This is meant to suppress TypeErrors - a
> way to abstract the logic which checks what arguments a passed-in function
> accepts.
>
> For example:
>
> def foo(x=1, y=2):
>     return (x,y)
>
> apply_some(foo, y=0, z="hi") // calls foo(y=0)
> -> (1,0)
>
> I'd like to expand this to fill undefined arguments with None, but before I
> do, does anyone know of any packages/libraries which either do something
> similar or would make this code cleaner?
>
> Cheers,
> Andrey
>
> 1. http://gist.github.com/183375
>
>
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Gerald Britton