Yes, pyp is interesting. So are some other roughly similar Python tools for doing pipe-like stuff. I had blogged about some of them here, a while ago, including

Yes, pyp is interesting. So are some other roughly similar Python tools for doing pipe-like stuff. I had blogged about some of them here, a while ago, including pyp, osh, and pipe (not the Unix pipe system call, but a Python module): Some ways of doing UNIX-style pipes in Python: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2011/09/some-ways-of-doing-unix-style-pipes-in.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2011/09/some-ways-of-doing-unix-st... And that later inspired me to create an experimental tool called pipe_controller: Swapping pipe components at runtime with pipe_controller: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/10/swapping-pipe-components-at-runtime.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/10/swapping-pipe-components-a... The above post links (recursively) to a few others, also by me, describing a couple of other ways of using pipe_controller, including this one: Using PipeController to run a pipe incrementally: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/09/using-pipecontroller-to-run-pipe.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/09/using-pipecontroller-to-ru... and also includes the link for it on my Bitbucket account. There's also plumbum, another such Python module.