Parallel mapping functions in IPython w/ multiple parameters

Question

I\'m trying to use IPython\'s parallel environment and so far, it\'s looking great but I\'m running into a problem. Lets say that I have a function, defined in a library

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Answer 1

An elegant way to do this is with partial functions.

If you know that you want the first argument of foo to be myArg, you can create a new function bar by

from functools import partial
bar = partial(foo, myARg)

bar(otherArg) will then return foo(myArg,otherArg)