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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:55:34 +0100
Subject: Re: Closures and Partial Function Application
From: Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
To: Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com>
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On 31 August 2011 17:45, Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was a little disappointed the other day when I realized that
> closures were read-only. I like to use closures quite a bit.
>
> Can someone explain why this limitation exists? Secondly, since I can
> cheat by wrapping the thing being closure-ified, how can I write a
> simple wrapper that has all the same members as the thing (decorator),
> that then applies them to the underlying thing?

I don't understand.  Can you give an example?

> I also like partial function application. What is the easiest way of
> achieving this in Python? Would it look something like this:
>
> def foo(x, y):
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0return x + y
>
> xFoo =3D lambda y: foo(10, y)

from functools import partial

foo10 =3D partial(foo, 10)

HTH

Arnaud