[jonmoore]

Toolz, like seemingly everything Matt Rocklin is a major contributor to, is something of a model library: cleanly designed and coded, with strong documentation.

Although Python is not going to match a full Lisp, Haskell or ML in all their strengths, using a functional style can be useful and expressive. The toolz docs give some relevant background at https://toolz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/heritage.html .

At a language level, Peter Norvig gave a lengthy comparison of Python and Lisp at https://norvig.com/python-lisp.html in 2000.