> Python's list comprehensions are merely syntactic sugar for filter + map, but they make functional code so much more readable.

More readable than filter/map/reduce _in Python_, because Guido dislikes them and wanted them out of the language (and succeeded in moving reduce to functools). Python's excuse for lambdas makes this so much worse.

Compared to functional languages, though? I'll take filter/map/fold/reduce from Haskell or Clojure versus list comprehensions any day.