Russell wrote: > I want my code to be Python 3000 compliant, and hear > that lambda is being eliminated. The problem is that I > want to partially bind an existing function with a value > "foo" that isn't known until run-time: > > someobject.newfunc = lambda x: f(foo, x) > > The reason a nested function doesn't work for this is > that it is, well, dynamic. I don't know how many times > or with what foo's this will be done. > > Now, I am sure there are a half-dozen ways to do this. > I just want the one, new and shiny, Pythonic way. ;-)
If you want to code partial application without lambda I recommend using the code presented in the accepted PEP 309 that will be implemented in the functional module in Python 2.5. http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0309.html Kay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
