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Why do you consider anonymous functions so important? Regular functions can be used the same way?

OP said anonymous functions are NOT as important as immutable data.

its in the list they provided of improvements python needs...

It's not a list of improvements python needs. It's a list of things python already does / has.

do I have bots responding to me? whats hard about comprehending this?

> To do proper functional programming in Python, there should be IMO:

> ...

> - a better syntax for anonymous functions than single statement lambdas.

Oh... either that was added in an edit or I had a brain blip that caused me to skip the bulleted list. Apologies.