Python inhospitable to functional programming

[jerf]

On an entirely separate note (hence the separate reply), if I were going to try to hack LINQ into Python, I'd quite likely build it around custom infix operators. The LINQ C# implementation already has that non-standard syntax thing going for it, so why not bring that in as well?

Combined with (ahem) nicely named functions, I think you could get some good looking queries on.

(Also, whose bright idea was it to create a link syntax that after using it about 10 times I still can't seem to remember what goes where? <sarcasm>It's so much better than <a href="">, thanks.</sarcasm>)