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		Lycanthrope on June 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python idioms There is functools.partial: `from functools import partial def add(x,y): return x+y add3 = partial(add, 3) add3(2) # returns 5`

skimbrel on June 13, 2011 [–]

Ah! I didn't know about that. It'd be nice to have the syntactic sugar à la Haskell, but oh well. Close enough.

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