> On Apr 6, 2016, at 6:57 PM, George Trojan - NOAA Federal > <george.tro...@noaa.gov> wrote: > > The module functools has partial() defined as above, then overrides the > definition by importing partial from _functools. That would explain the > above behaviour. My question is why?
A couple speculations why an author might retain a vestigial Python implementation after re-implementing in C: to provide a backup in case the C fails to compile or to simply provide an easier-to-read example of what the C is doing. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
