It seems that Guido Van Rossum has decided to keep lamda for Python 3000 (or as it will be called when release.. Python 3.0.
I can’t say i like all of the proposed changes. It starts to feel more and more like Java, though that may not be necessarily a bad thing.
It’s backwards incompatibly in a significant way, so don’t expect major applications to be ported right away (or at all!)