On 8/18/05, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for the more general proposal: -1 on more places to pass strings to > denote method/function/class names. These are ugly to type.
Agreed. > What I think you want is not a partial method, instead, you want to > turn a method into a standard function, and in a 'virtual' way. > > So I would propose the syntax > > lst.sort(key=virtual.lower) # where virtual is functional.virtual I like this, but would hope for a different name -- the poor word 'virtual' has been abused enough by C++. > P.S. It's not even clear that this should be added to functional, > as attrgetter and itemgetter are already in operator. But, perhaps, > they should be in functional. They feel related to attrgetter more than to partial. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
