I was a Lisp/Scheme programmer. I use Python only because Norvig wrote that it isn't so bad. But I curse out loud every time I type in 'self'. I hate the lambda

I was a Lisp/Scheme programmer. I use Python only because Norvig wrote that it isn't so bad. But I curse out loud every time I type in 'self'. I hate the lambda limitation (only expr). The scoping rules continue to confuse me. It's a good language if you're coming from C/Java. But it's a poor language if you're coming from Lisp/Smalltalk/ML.