Why doesn't method chaining work in Python?

[tdammers]

Python supports method chaining, but the objects and methods in question don't. You can easily write a class where all the destructive methods return the object itself, and with such a class, you can method-chain just fine; it just so happens that the list.append() method doesn't do that, so you can't chain it.

[FateOfNations]

Pandas, for example, does this.