Loops themselves can be considered just convenient wrappers around goto. The point is to restrict the variety (structured programming) and make spaghetti unreadable code less likely.

Using higher-order functions instead of loops is similar e.g. loops:

    # input_ =  "1,2,3"
    numbers = (int(d) for d in input_.split(","))
    product = 1
    for n in numbers:
        product *= n

can be replaced:

    numbers = map(int, input_.split(","))
    product  = reduce(mul, numbers, 1)