I rarely use for loops in Python. Most of the time I use list comprehensions, which are much more terse and expressive than loops and, at least to me, are easier to parse than map/filter/reduce functions.
Funny, that. List comprehensions are actually sytactically and semantically more difficult than folds, modulo your logic.
Honestly, I suspect the Haskell style and the curious Python cultural disdain for real lambadas have far more to do with your confort than any absolute metric of comprehension.
