[jennasys]

I look at it as a reminder that there may be a more Pythonic way of doing whatever it is you are using all the lambdas for.

[saagarjha]

After typing it more times than I could really care for, I now see it as Python spiting people who have experience with functional programming.

[smabie]

Unfortunately, the 'Pythonic' way is terrible. The fact that the functional way is even worse really says something about the language.