> `x = max(x, 3)` to demonstrate Python's muscles in terms of useful builtins Even Lua has a built-in `math.max` function that works with integers. Maybe it’s

> `x = max(x, 3)` to demonstrate Python's muscles in terms of useful builtins Even Lua has a built-in `math.max` function that works with integers. Maybe it’s Lua’s way of flexing on Go :) > About lambda syntax, to me it would be far more important to allow multiline lambdas than to have a shorter keyword. Never going to happen, unfortunately. It’s just not possible within the fundamental rules of Python’s grammar: that statements use significant indentation and expressions do not.