I've never understood the strong demand for multi-statement lambdas. At best, it's just syntactic sugar. What's wrong with: def my_map_function(x): # do

I've never understood the strong demand for multi-statement lambdas. At best, it's just syntactic sugar. What's wrong with: def my_map_function(x): # do stuff new_list = map(my_map_function, my_list) ?