[dragonwriter]

> 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.

[anamexis]

It depends who you ask.

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.