A similar question was asked on Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4961017/clojure-style-function-threading-in-python http://stackoverflow.com/q

A similar question was asked on Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4961017/clojure-style-function-threading-in-python http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4961017/clojure-style-fun... Some answers seem enlightening: While I sympathize with the desire to create cool new language constructs (à la Lisp macros), it is not really the Python philosophy to do this: >>> import this [...] There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.