Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function?

From	Kurian Thayil <kurianmthayil@gmail.com>
Subject	Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function?
Date	2011-07-18 15:43 +0530
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.1208.1310984052.1164.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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Hi,

I am a newbie in python and would like to learn GUI programming. I would like 
to know what exactly is Partial Function Applicaton (functool.partial())? Or 
how is it advantageous compared to normal functions? Or is there any 
advantange? Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Kurian Thayil.

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Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Kurian Thayil <kurianmthayil@gmail.com> - 2011-07-18 15:43 +0530
  Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-19 01:08 +1000
  Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? woooee <woooee@gmail.com> - 2011-07-18 12:23 -0700
    Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-07-18 16:17 -0400

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