There is a minor issue regarding the page https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html

The description of functools.partial starts with text "Return a new partial object" which contains a link. This link does not point to the partial object (#partial-objects anchor) as it should. It points back
to the partial function (#functools.partial anchor) which is not helpful. The partial object docs can be thus easily overseen.

Thanks @xitop for the report. Seems reasonable to me to link to https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/functools.html#partial-objects . Along similar lines I would suggest the below too where "partial objects" could be linked #partial-objects instead of #functools.partial . I will leave it for the reviewers though to decide on this.

"When func is a descriptor (such as a normal Python function, classmethod(), staticmethod(), abstractmethod() or another instance of partialmethod), calls to __get__ are delegated to the underlying descriptor, and an appropriate partial object returned as the result."


Thanks

Can I submit a PR for this or is anybody else on it?

Hi, I've also looked into this and I've added a patch addressing both updates (mentioned by xitop and xtreak).

New changeset 83a07652e0033f0d9994ae7634b91d6581c56b00 by Xiang Zhang (Andrei Petre) in branch 'master':
bpo-34748: link to :ref:`partial-objects` in functools.partial doc. (GH-9809)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/83a07652e0033f0d9994ae7634b91d6581c56b00

New changeset fc62c7223ed1ecd422e870cf7bfc23060444450a by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
bpo-34748: link to :ref:`partial-objects` in functools.partial doc. (GH-9809)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fc62c7223ed1ecd422e870cf7bfc23060444450a

New changeset 42892a2a38bb97c41e7b1b154e2b5b6f13d27b57 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.6':
bpo-34748: link to :ref:`partial-objects` in functools.partial doc. (GH-9809)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/42892a2a38bb97c41e7b1b154e2b5b6f13d27b57

New changeset 56a4a3aa555b3abc756cf837eddac4c0bf545db7 by Xiang Zhang in branch '2.7':
[2.7] bpo-34748: link to :ref:`partial-objects` in functools.partial doc. (GH-9809)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/56a4a3aa555b3abc756cf837eddac4c0bf545db7

Thanks all. :-)