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Excited to be out of stealth!

I think the similarity ends when you consider functions with more than 2 arguments. Let's compare a 2 argument function with a 3 argument function: @partial def f3(x, y, z): return…

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I'm glad you like the recipe :-) What if you have a function "f" that takes like 10 arguments and you need to pass it to a function "g" that expects as input a function takes 8 arg…

Yes! I definitely need to beef up the README. I wrote up a gist for some other commenters below which I can incorporate as part of the justification. https://gist.github.com/chrisg…

I'll give this a look.

High praise :-) I'm glad you like it! I don't know much about static checks / param hinting. TBH, I coded this up because I wanted to imagine how functions should work in Python as…

I'm glad you like it! This project was basically me trying to visualize how I wish functions generally worked like in Python.

I posted this below, but I can put it here too: https://gist.github.com/chrisgrimm/64bca66f14528cfda6d865cc2... Essentially functools.partial is somewhat limited in terms of which …

Sure, I'm not claiming to have originated the idea of using _ or some other placeholder to return partially applied functions. Lots of languages have some kind of shorthand syntax …

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Thanks for the feedback! This project was really me just imagining how I'd like functions to behave in Python. I didn't really expect there to be this much interest.

Yes! I almost made this mistake. Although I'm not sure @partial is the most apt name for the decorator, as it produces a function which can be partially applied. In retrospect, @pa…

I'll look into this soon. I honestly wasn't expecting this much traffic on what essentially was a weekend project, so I'll need to spend a bit of time making the code less insane a…

I'm glad you like it! I agree it's not optimal to have to wrap existing functions. One option would be to decorate the functions as they're defined, although you cant do this for e…

I guess it depends what kind of stuff you're working on. I do a lot of work with jax for my research ( https://github.com/google/jax ) and use functools.partial a lot.

Thanks! I would love to see it baked in as well. It'd be nice if, (1) all functions defaulted to behaving like better_partial.partial decorated functions and (2) similar to Ellipsi…

As pointed out, you could import _ directly into your namespace, or map it to some other shorthand name that doesn't interfere with your naming conventions. Also note that the _ pl…

One option would be to wrap the functions from lib import external from better_partial import partial as pp, _ pp(external)(..., arg4=10)

I really appreciate that :) Definitely give it a spin and let me know what you think!

here's an example of one of the behaviors of functools.partial that I find unintuitive / undesirable: https://gist.github.com/chrisgrimm/64bca66f14528cfda6d865cc2...

Hey, I use functools.partial a lot in my projects and I've always felt like it was pretty limited in the types of partial function application it could accomplish. I put together a…