python partial with keyword arguments

Question

I have a function that takes 3 keyword parameters. It has default values for x and y and I would like to call the function for different values of z using map. When I run the code below I get the following error:

foo() got multiple values for keyword argument 'x'

def foo(x =1, y = 2, z = 3):
    print 'x:%d, y:%d, z:%d'%(x, y, z)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    f1 = functools.partial(foo, x= 0, y = -6)
    zz = range(10)
    res = map(f1, zz)

Is there a Pythonic way to solve this problem?

Answer 1

map(f1, zz) tries to call the function f1 on every element in zz, but it doesn't know with which arguments to do it. partial redefined foo with x=0 but map will try to reassign x because it uses positional arguments.

To counter this you can either use a simple list comprehension as in @mic4ael's answer, or define a lambda inside the map:

res = map(lambda z: f1(z=z), zz)

Another solution would be to change the order of the arguments in the function's signature:

def foo(z=3, x=1, y=2):