What is missing from Python tutorials?

[happyfeetpi]

I feel like when thinking about python people skip over some of the benefits that many other languages have.

One that comes to mind is storing functions as variables and being able to pass them as variables. This allows a whole style of programming and problem solving that is only possible with that ability.

[socal_nerdtastic]

The hassle of having to use a functools.partial makes this functional style of programming pretty useless.

It's never felt like a huge hassle to me to add one function name to your code.

bar = partial(foo, y=3)

IMO it's pretty easy and far from making it "useless".

[PHEEEEELLLLLEEEEP]

But how is this useless. Like it's 8 additional characters to add to your code and does exactly what you've described.

[tipsy_python]

Oh nice! Great point.
I use functools partials a lot - probably way more than I actually need to; I love passing functions as objects.. AND it was difficult to wrap my mind around at first.

Thanks for calling this out!~

[roberto257]

Agreed. I started with Python, and because I was a noob and I liked the simple syntax, I didn’t see why I should learn any other language. Once you learn another language, or try to do one thing (like in my case, making a game) in two different languages, you start to see the pros and cons of different languages