BUG: This fixes #55009 (raw=True caused apply method of DataFrame to ignore passed arguments)

doc/source/whatsnew/v2.2.0.rst

@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ Bug fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~
 - Bug in :class:`AbstractHolidayCalendar` where timezone data was not propagated when computing holiday observances (:issue:`54580`)
 - Bug in :class:`pandas.core.window.Rolling` where duplicate datetimelike indexes are treated as consecutive rather than equal with ``closed='left'`` and ``closed='neither'`` (:issue:`20712`)
+- Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.apply` where passing ``raw=True`` ignored ``args`` passed to the applied function (:issue:`55009`)
 
 Categorical
 ^^^^^^^^^^^

pandas/core/apply.py

@@ -955,7 +955,11 @@ def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
             result = np.squeeze(result)
         else:
             result = np.apply_along_axis(
-                wrap_function(self.func), self.axis, self.values
+                wrap_function(self.func),
+                self.axis,
+                self.values,
+                *self.args,
+                **self.kwargs,
             )
 
         # TODO: mixed type case

pandas/tests/apply/test_frame_apply.py

@@ -45,8 +45,9 @@ def test_apply(float_frame):
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("axis", [0, 1])
-def test_apply_args(float_frame, axis):
-    result = float_frame.apply(lambda x, y: x + y, axis, args=(1,))
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("raw", [True, False])
+def test_apply_args(float_frame, axis, raw):
+    result = float_frame.apply(lambda x, y: x + y, axis, args=(1,), raw=raw)
     expected = float_frame + 1
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)