That disappointed me also, but the FP voice from the community is strong enough. Reduce lives on in functools and the functional package also adds additional functions, like compose. It's one of the packages I install first in a new Python installation. But true, Python will never grow into Haskell.

Also, lambda doesn't appear to be going anywhere. It's one of my favorite features.

Yes, not going away but not growing beyond the crippled, single-statement version it is now...