You could actually simplify even more with the trick used in a comment farther down (https://github.com/0101/pipetools). That way you would implement __or__ on for example `pipe` and not have to wrap each function.

As it turns out, implementing that different syntax in pyfunctional wouldn't be too hard or API breaking I think. Mainly it would require 1) wrapping/exporting functions to a module you could bring into scope (eg `from functional import functions as F` or `from functional.functions import *`), 2) Writing wrapper code to provide something functionally similar to `pipe`.

On libraries, I swear I saw something a while back, but my googlefu just now didn't help me find it.