[Python-ideas] Syntactic sugar to declare partial functions

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

>
> Do we often call functools.partial on arbitrary callable objects that we
> don't know in advance?

For my part, I don’t think I’ve ever used partial in production code.
It just seems easier to simply fo it by hand with a closure ( Am I
using that term right? I still don’t quite get the terminology)

And if I had a callable class instance I wanted to “customize”, I’d
likely use an OO approach — parameterize the instance, or subclass.

So yeah, partial is probably used primarily with “regular” functions.

But then, I don’t know that we need any easier syntax anyway — maybe
I’d be more likely to use it, but it kind of feels like a feature
that’s there so we can write more functional code for the sake of
writing more functional code.

If someone’s really interested in this, a search on gitHub or
something to see how it’s used in the wild could be enlightening.

-CHB