Reasons to choose Python over C++?

[micseydel]

You shouldn't be embarrassed about that, it's pretty common knowledge that python has some of the worst lambda support.

Sorry, meant to say I'm embarrassed for Python, especially at this point in time. Like it should have been figured out by now. And Java isn't known as a great or progressive language.

I almost cited your method chaining thread as a FP deficiency of Python. I also prefer Scala (and Java for that matter) making map, reduce, filter, etc. be methods rather than functions. There's gotta be a way for whitespace and lambdas to work.