I'm not sure if you are aware, but there are several efforts out there to give Python a more data-pipeline-friendly (composable pipe) syntax: 1) Coconut: http:

I'm not sure if you are aware, but there are several efforts out there to give Python a more data-pipeline-friendly (composable pipe) syntax: 1) Coconut: http://coconut-lang.org/ http://coconut-lang.org/ 2) https://github.com/JulienPalard/Pipe https://github.com/JulienPalard/Pipe 3) Pandas also has a new dataframe pipe method. https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.pipe.html https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/panda... I would look at those before rolling out a custom solution.