Simple partial example

partial.py

from functools import partial

def power(number, order):
    """This is a power function"""
    return number ** order

square = partial( power, order = 2)
cube = partial( power, order = 3)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print square(2)
    print cube(2)

>>>4
>>>8

partial_server_connection.py

def ssh_execute(host,username,password,command):
    connection = ssh_connection(host,port,username,password)    
    return connection.execute(command)

prod_server = partial(ssh_execute, 'prod_host','prod_username', 'prod_pass' )
dev_server  = partial(ssh_execute, 'dev_host','dev_username', 'dev_pass' )

prod_server('whoami')
dev_server('whoami')

>>>prod_user
>>>dev_user