I've gotten the impression that there are, in a sense - in python, list comprehensions are usually preferred over for-loops in places where you would use map and filter, and the most common use cases for fold/reduce are covered by functions like sum and join. List Comprehensions also tend to be preferred over higher order functions, perhaps for readability, but also, in python 3, the higher order functions return generators, which don't always play nicely with mutable data.

For-loops are still suitable for actions (which mutate state or for some other reason need to be evaluated in order) - you see this in Haskell, too, though, with Control.Monad's forM_ and the like.