Pythons failure to provide this, indeed, outright hostility to doing so is half the reason pandas is a mess of incomprehensible syntax
By prioritising assignment expressions and implementing pattern "matching" as a statement, they're clearly showing a lot of hostility to one of the major use cases of their language
(incidentally, recall that C# introduced LINQ in 2008, a generalised comprehension! That's C#.)
There isnt the syntax to reimplement to support natural phrasings of data transformation, in lieu of this, pandas exploits weird operators such as `.loc[a,b]`.
At some point the dam is going to have to break, and python is going to have to introduce something to resolve this mess. However, i'd bet it'll be a decade of tooth-and-nail fighting about it. It isnt a software engineering language for education any more, and i'm not seeing this reality being acknowledged
nothing intrinsically 'functional' about this, though it's nice
> syntax for partial application
<https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.p...>
> and composition,
Hmm, to my surprise I can't find this but TBH it's trivial to write, here's an eg <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16739290/composing-funct...>
> a typing system which can express structural types,
typing is orthogonal to FP (though very nice to have)
> a generalised list comprehension
IDK what this means, what's ungeneral about comprehensions currently?