Some time ago I looked over Haskell docs and found it's functional composition operator really nice. So I've implemented this tiny decorator:

from functools import partial

class _compfunc(partial):
    def __lshift__(self, y):
        f = lambda *args, **kwargs: self.func(y(*args, **kwargs)) 
        return _compfunc(f)

    def __rshift__(self, y):
        f = lambda *args, **kwargs: y(self.func(*args, **kwargs)) 
        return _compfunc(f)

def composable(f):
    return _compfunc(f)

@composable    
def f1(x):
    return x * 2

@composable
def f2(x):
    return  x + 3

@composable
def f3(x):
    return (-1) * x

@composable
def f4(a):
    return a + [0]

print (f1 >> f2 >> f3)(3) #-9
print (f4 >> f1)([1, 2]) #[1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0]
print (f4 << f1)([1, 2]) #[1, 2, 1, 2, 0]

The problem: without language support we can't use this syntax on builtin functions or lambdas like this:

((lambda x: x + 3) >> abs)(2)

The question: is it useful? Does it worth to be discussed on python mail list?

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