def foo(arg1, arg2): pass

def foo_one(arg1): return foo(arg1, "one")
def foo_two(arg1): return foo(arg1, "two")
def foo_three(arg1): return foo(arg1, "three")
def foo_five(arg1): return foo(arg1, "five")

import functools
def test(arg1, arg2):
    print arg1, arg2
fs = [functools.partial(test, i) for i in xrange(4)]
for i, f in enumerate(fs):
    f(i)

import functools

def foo(arg1, arg2): print arg1, arg2

funcs = [functools.partial(foo, arg2=i) for i in ["one", "two", "three", "four"]]

funcs[0](1)
funcs[1](2)
funcs[2](3)
funcs[3](4)

import functools

def foo(arg1, arg2): print arg1, arg2

foo_one = functools.partial(foo, arg2="one")
foo_two = functools.partial(foo, arg2="two")
foo_three = functools.partial(foo, arg2="three")
foo_four = functools.partial(foo, arg2="four")

foo_one(1)
foo_two(2)
foo_three(3)
foo_four(4)

import functools

def foo(arg1, arg2): print arg1, arg2

foo_one, foo_two,  foo_three, foo_four = [functools.partial(foo, arg2=i) for i in ["one", "two", "three", "four"]]

>>> import sys
... import functools
... 
... def foo(arg1, arg2):
...     print arg1, arg2
>>> module = sys.modules[__name__]
>>> [setattr(module, 'foo_%s' % i, functools.partial(foo, arg2=i)) for i in  ["one", "two", "three", "four"]]
0: [None, None, None, None]
>>> foo_one
1: <functools.partial object at 0xb739a34c>
>>> foo_one(1)
1 one

>>> import functools
... 
... def foo(arg1, arg2): print arg1, arg2
... 
... funcs = {'foo_' + i: functools.partial(foo, arg2=i) for i in ["one", "two", "three", "four"]}
>>> funcs['foo_one']('blah')
blah one

for x in "x1 x2 x3".split():
    exec("""def {nm}(i):print '{nm}'+str(i)""".format(nm=x))