it's not, this is just showcasing a functionality

The only reason I can see this being seemingly useful is if you need to reset the entire state of the program in a rather quick and easy way. Could possibly be used to handle unexpected cases or recover from faults without crashing or quitting entirely.

I don't think it would. Execv replaced the current executing process with the executable found at the specified path, so I think the python interpreter would be invoked again on the executable file

The old state is lost, as is all memory, and by default any files are closed except for in, out, err, but you can mark them to keep them. The pid will remain the same. This is a unix thing, not a python thing, it's actually just the second step of process creation, normally following fork(). I have never seen exec used for "self-restart" though, usually if an application reaches some broken state where it is necessary to completely wipe the slate, that state is not identified by the same application, but instead by some watcher that kills the old process and spawns a new one. This approach to restarting spawns an entire new python intepreter so it's usually not efficient, you're better off preventing broken state in the first place. Though I don't know how python populates sys.executable with the interpreter path, and the docs states you might end up with None or an empty string if it can't figure it out, so that might put some very unexpected things in arg 0 to execv. Be careful if you actually need this for whatever reason.

Maybe they use it something similar in the back haha

I wondered if that would happen some day! Genuinely a complete accident the names are so close lmao. To answer your question, yes, you can pass as many arguments as you like, and you can pass kwargs as well! So where you had def func(x, y, z): ... You could do p = partial(func, 1, 2) p(3)

@@Carberra ha, well glad I could be the first - where’d the name come from? My question is more if you can apply partial to the result of applying partial: x = partial(func,1) y = partial(x,True) z = y(“hello”)

Believe it or not it came from the TVR Cerbera -- used to play a lot of Gran Turismo, Carberra just came from that 😅 Just tried it cos I was curious and looks like it works fine yeah.

That would certain explain why it's faster to execute if there's one less function call. Would be interesting to see the differences using dis.

Oh that's a great use. I always just use lambda's 😂

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Thank you!

Indeed it does!

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This is a feature in visual studio code, called multiple cursors. Hover over wherever you want to add another cursor then do Alt + Click. Any text you type will be typed out at the locations of both cursors.

A language shouldn't be tailored to people with no prior knowledge. The feature is easy and concise. also, equals is used in a format string so no one expects it to assign anything there

@@niels6190 that's true, personal preference though, not the way I'd do it and arguably not the most accessible approach, but it is Python after all, science researchers aren't renowned for their clean code and nor should they be, it's not their perogative.

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F in chat, perhaps? 😉

Considering how much I use it it's not even that hyperbolic lmao. Genuinely one of my fav syntax changes in any version.

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Me neither! Very neat.

Thanks man! I tried to be very thorough about it cos I get asked about decorators quote a bit, and see quite a lot of confusion about them elsewhere too.

Ayu (specifically the Mirage Bordered variant).

Yeah, converting them when needed is cheap, store binary data as binary when possible.