Instructing a function to be called with a specific argument without executing it

Question

I am trying to encode logic to filter a Pandas dataframe. I\'d like to encode the logic as a dictionary, with the subgroup name as the key, and the function to filter for the su

Answer 1

You can consider functools.partialmethod, which allows you to specify any number of args or kwargs:

from functools import partialmethod

mappings = {'Jets Fans': partialmethod(BaseFilter.for_jets_fans, 'Jets'),
            'Patriots Fans': partialmethod(BaseFilter.for_patriots_fans, 'Patriots'),
            'NFC Fans': partialmethod(BaseFilter.for_team_fans, 'Bears', 'Packers')}