from pep 3099: At one point lambda was slated for removal in Python 3000. Unfortunately no one was able to come up with a better way of providing

from pep 3099: At one point lambda was slated for removal in Python 3000. Unfortunately no one was able to come up with a better way of providing anonymous functions. And so lambda is here to stay. But it is here to stay as-is. Adding support for statements is a non-starter. It would require allowing multi-line lambda expressions which would mean a multi-line expression could suddenly exist. That would allow for multi-line arguments to function calls, for instance. That is just plain ugly. Thread: "genexp syntax / lambda", http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/001042.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/0010...