I'm sorry but this article is mostly not Scottish. Lambdas in Python are an old non-issue. They are what they are.

I like 'em because you can do "stupid python tricks" like Church numerals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding

    plus = lambda m: lambda n : lambda f: lambda x: m(f)(n(f)(x))
    succ = lambda n: lambda f: lambda x: f(n(f)(x))
    mult = lambda m: lambda n: lambda f: m(n(f))
    exp = lambda m: lambda n: n(m)

    c0 = lambda f: lambda x: x
    c1 = lambda f: lambda x: f(x)
    c2 = lambda f: lambda x: f(f(x))
    c3 = lambda f: lambda x: f(f(f(x)))
    c4 = plus(c1)(c3)
    c5 = plus(c2)(c3)
    c6 = plus(c1)(c5)
    c7 = succ(c6)
    c8 = succ(c7)
    c9 = c3(succ)(c6)
    c10 = mult(c2)(c5)
    c11 = succ(c10)
    c12 = mult(c3)(c4)
    c64 = c3(c4)
    c256 = exp(c2)(c8)