Antony Lee <anntzer....@gmail.com> added the comment:
Python2's apply has different semantics: it takes non-unpacked arguments, i.e.
def apply(f, args, kwargs={}): return f(*args, **kwargs)
rather than
def call(f, *args, **kwargs): return f(*args, **kwargs)
I agree that both functions can be written in two (or one) line, but the same
can be said of most functions in the operator module (def add(x, y): return x +
y); from the module's doc ("efficient functions corresponding to the intrinsic
operators"), I would argue that the criteria for inclusion are efficiency
(operator.call is indeed fast, see the linked PR) and intrinsicness (I don't
know if there's a hard definition, but function calling certainly seems
intrinsic).
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