Y'all have of course read all the past Python vs. Lisp hoobla; Python being "Lisp-envy" of sorts, and you may have mostly ignored it, or tried to, at least. Nevertheless, Oliver Steel offers a clearer viewpoint to this kind of thinking with his post Becoming Lisp.

He points us to recent Python Cookbook recipes that are based on (to some extent) type/class unification, decorators and generator expressions:

I’ve listed below some of the functional and metaprogramming recipes and packages that have shown up in PyPI and the Python Cookbook over the past few weeks.

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The point is that these are flowing in fast and furious, and that they don’t take much code. The recipes below are from just two weeks.