Spot on. You replace your "anemic way" with first-class functions and namespacing, it ends up being the same thing.

With currying, you do away with OO and parameter initialization altogether.

    @curry
    def SMTPSender(host, message):
       ...

    emailSender = SMTPSender(host='localhost')
    # partially evaluated fn with `host` fixed
    emailSender(message=message)