Partial functions in Python

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Have you ever used partial functions? It's an interesting functionality that can be found in the functools package.
It's pretty straightforward - you can take a function that takes multiple arguments and produces a new function that has one or more arguments already set, effectively tailoring your previous function to a specific need.
See below an example of it in action.
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