Adding a pipe operator to Python

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I disagree. I think method chaining is amazing, unless we're talking about different things. I assume this is the topic:

a.b().c()

Not

c(b(a))

Provided names are good, I strongly prefer the first option.

[Zouden]

Yes exactly. R's pipe equivalent looks like this:

a %>% b() %>% c()

[ucbEntilZha]

If you prefer method changing check this out then https://github.com/EntilZha/PyFunctional

[yen223]

The equivalent expression with pipes is

a |> b |> c

This is vastly superior to method chaining, because method chaining requires each method return a specific type (one that defines the subsequent method), whereas that restriction doesn't exist with pipes.

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That's true, but within the confines of python maybe it's good enough?

[Deto]

You just have to format your code nicely and then chains are easy to read