In R (thanks to magritrr) you can now perform operations with a more functional piping syntax via %>%. This means that instead of coding this: <
PyToolz [doc] allows arbitrarily composable pipes, just they aren't defined with that pipe-operator syntax.
Follow the above link for the quickstart. And here's a video tutorial: http://pyvideo.org/video/2858/functional-programming-in-python-with-pytoolz
In [1]: from toolz import pipe
In [2]: from math import sqrt
In [3]: pipe(12, sqrt, str)
Out[3]: '3.4641016151377544'