>> >> from functools import partial >> from operator import ne >> L = filter(partial(ne, 'a'), L) >>
I learned about functools.partial only recently (on this list). functools is implemented in C, not Python, so I couldn't answer this question for myself: Is functools.partial completely equivalent to a manually-coded closure? Help, please. -John E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.11850 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list