Guido Van Rossum and the development team didn't want the language to be functional. There is very little functional support in Python in general, besides not supporting first class functions over multiple lines.
> There is very little functional support in Python in general, besides not supporting first class functions over multiple lines.
You are confusing “first-class functions” and “anonymous functions”, which are completely different things. Python functions are first-class, independent of length.
Some definitions of "first-class function" require that it have the same value semantics as any other first-class type, which would include a literal syntax/anonymous functions.
You are confusing “first-class functions” and “anonymous functions”, which are completely different things. Python functions are first-class, independent of length.