Ian Bicking wrote:
>
> lst = ['A', 'b', 'C']
> lst.sort(key=partialmethod('lower'))
>
> Which sorts by lower-case. Of course you can use str.lower, except
> you'll have unnecessarily enforced a type (and excluded Unicode). So
> you are left with lambda x: x.lower().
For this specific case, you can use string.lower (which is exactly
what the lambda function does).
As for the more general proposal: -1 on more places to pass strings to
denote method/function/class names. These are ugly to type.
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
As for extending PEP 309: This PEP deliberately abstained from other
ways of currying, and instead only introduced the functional module.
If you want to see "lazy functions" in the standard library, you should
write a new PEP (unless there is an easy agreement about a single right
way to do this, which I don't see).
Regards,
Martin
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.
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