Index: Modules/_functoolsmodule.c
===================================================================
--- Modules/_functoolsmodule.c	(revision 54922)
+++ Modules/_functoolsmodule.c	(working copy)
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 } partialobject;
 
 static PyTypeObject partial_type;
+static PyObject *partial_skip;
 
 static PyObject *
 partial_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kw)
@@ -89,6 +90,10 @@
 {
 	PyObject *ret;
 	PyObject *argappl = NULL, *kwappl = NULL;
+	PyObject *ptoargscopy, *arg;
+	Py_ssize_t skip_index = 0;
+	Py_ssize_t pull_index = 0;
+	Py_ssize_t i;
 
 	assert (PyCallable_Check(pto->fn));
 	assert (PyTuple_Check(pto->args));
@@ -101,7 +106,25 @@
 		argappl = pto->args;
 		Py_INCREF(pto->args);
 	} else {
-		argappl = PySequence_Concat(pto->args, args);
+		
+		// For each partial_skip in the pto args, replace it with a new arg
+		ptoargscopy = PyTuple_New(PyTuple_GET_SIZE(pto->args));
+		for (i = 0; i<PyTuple_GET_SIZE(pto->args); ++i) {
+			arg = PyTuple_GetItem(pto->args, i);
+			Py_XINCREF(arg);
+			PyTuple_SetItem(ptoargscopy, i, arg);
+			if (arg == NULL) {
+				break;
+			} else if (arg == partial_skip) {
+				arg = PyTuple_GetItem(args, pull_index);
+				Py_XINCREF(arg);
+				PyTuple_SetItem(ptoargscopy, i, arg);
+				pull_index += 1;
+			}
+		}
+
+		arg = PyTuple_GetSlice(args, pull_index, PySequence_Length(args));
+		argappl = PySequence_Concat(ptoargscopy, arg);
 		if (argappl == NULL)
 			return NULL;
 	}
@@ -142,7 +165,8 @@
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(partial_doc,
 "partial(func, *args, **keywords) - new function with partial application\n\
-	of the given arguments and keywords.\n");
+	of the given arguments and keywords. Pass partial.skip to any positional\n\
+	argument to be bound to later.");
 
 #define OFF(x) offsetof(partialobject, x)
 static PyMemberDef partial_memberlist[] = {
@@ -242,6 +266,7 @@
 };
 
 
+
 /* module level code ********************************************************/
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(module_doc,
@@ -255,7 +280,7 @@
 init_functools(void)
 {
 	int i;
-	PyObject *m;
+	PyObject *m, *builtins, *skip, *object;
 	char *name;
 	PyTypeObject *typelist[] = {
 		&partial_type,
@@ -274,4 +299,16 @@
 		Py_INCREF(typelist[i]);
 		PyModule_AddObject(m, name+1, (PyObject *)typelist[i]);
 	}
+
+	builtins = PyImport_ImportModule("__builtin__");
+	object = PyObject_GetAttrString(builtins, "object");
+	Py_DECREF(builtins);
+	skip = PyObject_CallObject(object, NULL, NULL);
+	Py_DECREF(object);
+
+	partial_type.tp_dict = PyDict_New();
+	PyDict_SetItemString(partial_type.tp_dict, "skip", skip);
+	partial_skip = skip;
+
+	// skip is not decref'ed because a reference is always held by the static pointer.
 }