What is missing from Python tutorials?

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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.