`read', `eval', and `print'

I skimmed documentation of Python after people told me it was fundametally similar to Lisp. My conclusion is that that is not so. When you start Lisp, it does `read', `eval', and `print', all of which are missing in Python.[o]
Some EXPERT PROGRAMMERS care to elaborate on the above? The last part (read/eval/print), not the one about the similarity.

python is the only scripting language that embraces functional programming

the guido is very interested in fp concepts and tries to incorporate them into the language whenever possible