>Python is warty and creaky, but more mainstream than CL, so it's a fair comparison. How can it be a fair comparison, when Python isn't even a real functional

>Python is warty and creaky, but more mainstream than CL, so it's a fair comparison. How can it be a fair comparison, when Python isn't even a real functional language? (lambdas have been intentionally crippled, there is a separation between statements and functions, not everything is an expression, and so on...)