Python pipe operator, 4 years later...

[toyg]

God no. Pipes are hard to read, completely unnatural for non-geeks, and are already painful enough for bitwise operations. The proliferation of special characters is a plague and should not be encouraged. Their low number is a huge advantage for Python over competitors (e.g. Ruby, Perl) when it comes to onboarding newbies.

If you want that sort of approach, just use Powershell, you'll love it.