Practice Partial (6.4.1) - Chapter 6: Functional Programming Tools in Python

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Question 1.
What does the partial function do?
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Think about how functions can be modified.
Question 2.
Give an example of using partial.
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Remember the power function.
3Question 3.
What does the partial function do?
- Locks some function arguments
- Deletes arguments
- Creates a new module
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Consider how function arguments can change.
4Question 4.
True or False: Using partial, we can create functions that require fewer parameters to be passed.
- True
- False
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Think of how we simplify function calls.
Question 5.
Create a partial function that calculates the area of a rectangle, fixing one dimension at, say, 10. Show how you would call it with different widths.
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Think about the rectangle area formula.
Question 6.
Use partial to create a custom text formatter that will always prepend 'Hello, ' to any provided name string. Demonstrate how this would work.
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Congratulate yourself on making text special!

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