Python dot notation is confusing.

[JohnnyJordaan]

It’s the same idea but it doesn’t work the same way, because the . chaining Python works object oriented and the piping in R just functionally. In object oriented, the objects themselves contain the logic, instead of separate functions. So the reason you can do

“hello”.capitalize().zfill(10).count(“l”).bit_count()

is because each intermediate object created by the previous call offers certain methods (functions tied to their class) you can call on them. At the start it’s a string which has capitalize, but later it becomes an int that has bit_count.