title: Functional pipes in python like %>% from R's magrittr
body: <p>In R (thanks to <a href="https://magrittr.tidyverse.org/" rel="noreferrer">magrittr</a>) you can now perform operations with a more functional piping syntax via <code>%&gt;%</code>. This means that instead of coding this:</p>
  <pre><code>&gt; as.Date(&quot;2014-01-01&quot;)
  &gt; as.character((sqrt(12)^2)
  </code></pre>
  <p>You could also do this:</p>
  <pre><code>&gt; &quot;2014-01-01&quot; %&gt;% as.Date 
  &gt; 12 %&gt;% sqrt %&gt;% .^2 %&gt;% as.character
  </code></pre>
  <p>To me this is more readable and this extends to use cases beyond the dataframe. Does the python language have support for something similar?</p>