[selfmodruntime]

This reads so much better

[JoshuaDavid]

If you actually think this code is better there's a real library that does this: https://github.com/EntilZha/PyFunctional.

[kzrdude]

One puzzling thing is that it uses backslash continuation in its examples. The most favoured style, IMO is to use ()'s for line continuation, maybe the author just doesn't know about those.