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I was gonna say cool for FP guys but alien to the Python world, but then i saw the f(..., x=1) syntax and decided you're a genius. Really nice idea.

In practice i worry about static checkers and IDE param hints though, how have you fared with these?

Not your fault at all, but mypy/pyright have very poor support for wrappers like this, and in IDEs it's common for their arg hints to devolve to a copout (args, kwargs) as well.

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> Not your fault at all, but mypy/pyright have very poor support for wrappers like this, and in IDEs it's common for their arg hints to devolve to a copout (args, kwargs) as well.

You might be able to annotate it accurately with generics, ParamSpec and Concatenate[1].

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0612/

I'll give this a look.

High praise :-) I'm glad you like it! I don't know much about static checks / param hinting. TBH, I coded this up because I wanted to imagine how functions should work in Python as more of a fun exercise.

Accordingly there are a lot of things I have to do to make better_partial a strong tool for the community. I'll probably have time to work on the project again later in the week.

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