squared functions--most Pythonic way?

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 28-Jun-2002 Giorgi Lekishvili wrote:
> One of the biggest advantages of Python is its nice and elegand mixture of
> procedural, OO and functional programming... I would prefer lambda stile as
> the
> most concise, but it is a matter of personal "phylosophy";)
> 

in recent discussions (around a month ago) it was revealed that the powers that
be question lambda's existence in python and if they had it to do over again
may not have included it.  No they do not plan to remove it now (-: