It's not the same thing. In Python you don't have the full power of the language at your disposal, you can't add primitives like if/class/etc; in Lisp, the sky

It's not the same thing. In Python you don't have the full power of the language at your disposal, you can't add primitives like if/class/etc; in Lisp, the sky is the limit. The lambdas are crippled; as are the threads, using processes is a completely different game. I would consider spending some of that energy on learning Lisp.