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+:mod:`functools` --- Higher order functions and operations on callable objects
+==============================================================================
+
+.. module:: functools
+   :synopsis: Higher order functions and operations on callable objects.
+.. moduleauthor:: Peter Harris <scav@blueyonder.co.uk>
+.. moduleauthor:: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
+.. moduleauthor:: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>
+.. sectionauthor:: Peter Harris <scav@blueyonder.co.uk>
+
+
+.. versionadded:: 2.5
+
+The :mod:`functools` module is for higher-order functions: functions that act on
+or return other functions. In general, any callable object can be treated as a
+function for the purposes of this module.
+
+The :mod:`functools` module defines the following functions:
+
+
+.. function:: reduce(function, iterable[, initializer])
+
+   This is the same function as :func:`reduce`.  It is made available in this module
+   to allow writing code more forward-compatible with Python 3.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 2.6
+
+
+.. function:: partial(func[,*args][, **keywords])
+
+   Return a new :class:`partial` object which when called will behave like *func*
+   called with the positional arguments *args* and keyword arguments *keywords*. If
+   more arguments are supplied to the call, they are appended to *args*. If
+   additional keyword arguments are supplied, they extend and override *keywords*.
+   Roughly equivalent to::
+
+      def partial(func, *args, **keywords):
+          def newfunc(*fargs, **fkeywords):
+              newkeywords = keywords.copy()
+              newkeywords.update(fkeywords)
+              return func(*(args + fargs), **newkeywords)
+          newfunc.func = func
+          newfunc.args = args
+          newfunc.keywords = keywords
+          return newfunc
+
+   The :func:`partial` is used for partial function application which "freezes"
+   some portion of a function's arguments and/or keywords resulting in a new object
+   with a simplified signature.  For example, :func:`partial` can be used to create
+   a callable that behaves like the :func:`int` function where the *base* argument
+   defaults to two:
+
+      >>> from functools import partial
+      >>> basetwo = partial(int, base=2)
+      >>> basetwo.__doc__ = 'Convert base 2 string to an int.'
+      >>> basetwo('10010')
+      18
+
+
+.. function:: update_wrapper(wrapper, wrapped[, assigned][, updated])
+
+   Update a *wrapper* function to look like the *wrapped* function. The optional
+   arguments are tuples to specify which attributes of the original function are
+   assigned directly to the matching attributes on the wrapper function and which
+   attributes of the wrapper function are updated with the corresponding attributes
+   from the original function. The default values for these arguments are the
+   module level constants *WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS* (which assigns to the wrapper
+   function's *__name__*, *__module__* and *__doc__*, the documentation string) and
+   *WRAPPER_UPDATES* (which updates the wrapper function's *__dict__*, i.e. the
+   instance dictionary).
+
+   The main intended use for this function is in :term:`decorator` functions which
+   wrap the decorated function and return the wrapper. If the wrapper function is
+   not updated, the metadata of the returned function will reflect the wrapper
+   definition rather than the original function definition, which is typically less
+   than helpful.
+
+
+.. function:: wraps(wrapped[, assigned][, updated])
+
+   This is a convenience function for invoking ``partial(update_wrapper,
+   wrapped=wrapped, assigned=assigned, updated=updated)`` as a function decorator
+   when defining a wrapper function. For example:
+
+      >>> from functools import wraps
+      >>> def my_decorator(f):
+      ...     @wraps(f)
+      ...     def wrapper(*args, **kwds):
+      ...         print 'Calling decorated function'
+      ...         return f(*args, **kwds)
+      ...     return wrapper
+      ...
+      >>> @my_decorator
+      ... def example():
+      ...     """Docstring"""
+      ...     print 'Called example function'
+      ...
+      >>> example()
+      Calling decorated function
+      Called example function
+      >>> example.__name__
+      'example'
+      >>> example.__doc__
+      'Docstring'
+
+   Without the use of this decorator factory, the name of the example function
+   would have been ``'wrapper'``, and the docstring of the original :func:`example`
+   would have been lost.
+
+
+.. _partial-objects:
+
+:class:`partial` Objects
+------------------------
+
+:class:`partial` objects are callable objects created by :func:`partial`. They
+have three read-only attributes:
+
+
+.. attribute:: partial.func
+
+   A callable object or function.  Calls to the :class:`partial` object will be
+   forwarded to :attr:`func` with new arguments and keywords.
+
+
+.. attribute:: partial.args
+
+   The leftmost positional arguments that will be prepended to the positional
+   arguments provided to a :class:`partial` object call.
+
+
+.. attribute:: partial.keywords
+
+   The keyword arguments that will be supplied when the :class:`partial` object is
+   called.
+
+:class:`partial` objects are like :class:`function` objects in that they are
+callable, weak referencable, and can have attributes.  There are some important
+differences.  For instance, the :attr:`__name__` and :attr:`__doc__` attributes
+are not created automatically.  Also, :class:`partial` objects defined in
+classes behave like static methods and do not transform into bound methods
+during instance attribute look-up.
+