Good introduction to functional programming with Python?

[Tim Peters]

[Tim]
> if-we-don't-act-fast-i'm-afraid-python-may-lose-the-industrial-
>     control-market-ly y'rs  - tim

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]
> You'd have to write program verification tools for distributed
> python applications...

No problem -- tabnanny.py can run on any number of machines simultaneously!

> maybe-that's-why-erlang-is-erlang-ly y'rs

feh!-erlang-doesn't-even-have-a-tabnanny-ly y'rs  - tim