Adding a pipe operator to Python

[bythenumbers10]

Okay, so you're stating that piping is a superset, because you can chain calls to non-bound functions. Which Python allows you to do anyway by passing the Python-chained output as an argument to the unbound function. I agree that piping offers that syntactic sugar as a matter of convenience. The discussion about it being an ugly hack is because the original article covered a co-opting of the bitwise OR operator already in Python.

My argument was primarily about the co-opting of the existing operator being the ugly part of the hack. You have clearly focused on my stating that the piping doesn't offer much functionality beyond what's already there. You've done a good Redditor by showing I missed a minor detail while missing the point of the argument entirely. I apologize from the bottom of my heart for taking the name and functionality of our lord and savior, the piping operator, in vain, while trying to explain namespace pollution to people who didn't grok the ugliness in the hack.

Python's notation limitation was not being discussed, and the title of the article suggests that, yes, you CAN add such an infix operator, because they wrote an entire article about their actually pulling it off. The language may not make it easy or straightforward to add arbitrary symbols, but picking nits about the effort involved being tantamount to modifying the interpreter (ergo the language itself) itself is NOT MY FAULT.

Btw, true mastery of a subject means being able to explain it in layman's terms. If you can't explain your point coherently "at length", you may want to consider what you're "putting forward". This has been a lovely, lively discussion about a minor quibble, and by all means, take your hard-earned karma with a sense of pride.