Is there anything like this in the standard library? class AnyFactory(object): def __init__(self, anything): self.product = anything def __call__(self): return self.product def __repr__(self): return "%s.%s(%r)" % (self.__class__.__module__, self.__class__.__name__, self.product)
my use case is: collections.defaultdict(AnyFactory(collections.defaultdict(AnyFactory(None)))) And I think lambda expressions are not preferable... I found itertools.repeat(anything).next and functools.partial(copy.copy, anything) but both of those don't repr well... and are confusing... I think AnyFactory is the most readable, but is confusing if the reader doesn't know what it is, am I missing a standard implementation of this?
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