On 9/11/2015 3:56 AM, Herbert Kruitbosch wrote:
I was wondering if there are considerations for including partial function application syntactically. I very often find myself writing statements as: data_sorted = sort(data, key = lambda x: x[0]) where I would prefer data_sorted = sort(data, key = #1[0]) where the #1 is similar to the one used in Mathematica for the same purpose. That is, an expression with #1 becomes an anonymous function which takes one argument, and, obviously, if a #n is included, the anonymous function takes n arguments.
For future reference, ideas like this belong on the python-list or python-ideas list. Pydev is more for discussion of policy, concrete issues for the next releases, and approval ideas that have been fully fleshed out in the form of a PEP.
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