Practicality beats purity. Python should support better function literals for the same reason that it supports the "implicit" [1,2,3] instead of making you expl

Practicality beats purity. Python should support better function literals for the same reason that it supports the "implicit" [1,2,3] instead of making you explicitly create a list and call append. I'd say self falls into the same category, although I haven't found it as much an annoyance as some.