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[Python-Dev] Partial function application 'from the right'

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Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels <at> Acm.Org> writes:
> 
> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > ...
> > In py3k, we could also use "..." (the Ellipsis object) to denote 
> > places where an argument is missing, so that:
> >     split_comma = partial(str.split, ..., ',')
> > would do what you want.
> 
> Thus preventing any use of partial when an argument could be an
> the Ellipsis instance.

Obviously, it is the drawback :) But Ellipsis is hardly used anywhere, and it 
reads good in this very use case.

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