[Python-ideas] Make partial a built-in

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 5:01 PM, אלעזר <elazarg at gmail.com> wrote:
> But the foo() finds the function to call, so foo.bind() could be made to
> find it too.

class Demo:
    def __init__(self):
        self.bind = 42
    def __call__(self):
        print("I got called!")

foo = Demo()

You can most certainly call foo(), but foo.bind() will bite you.

With a stand-alone function bind(foo), it can use protocols like __call__.

ChrisA