[Python] Chaining functions with multiple arguments

Is there a way to chain functions with multiple arguments?

For the moment I "chain" my operation in Python like this:

def createDirIfNecessary(directoryName):
if not os.path.exists(directoryName):
print 'Creating directory [%s]'% directoryName
os.makedirs(directoryName)
return directoryName

cakeName = 'lemonPie'
cookDate = '2011-01-04'

#yewww very ugly, big blob of function call ...
myDir = os.path.join(getDbDir('kitchenCupboardDir'),'cakes', cakeName)
file = os.path.join(createDirIfNecessary(myDir), cookDate + '.gz')


For example, in R there is a very elegant way to proceed using a 'pipe' %>% operator (pipe operator also present in Haskell). The equivalent code is:

cakeName = 'lemonPie'
cookDate = '2011-01-04'

file = getDbDir('kitchenCupboardDir') %>%
file.path('cakes', cakeName) %>%
createDirIfNecessary %>%
file.path(paste0(cookDate,'.gz'))


Here there are only 4 functions, there can be 6, 7 which can be easily chained. I can't use R unfortunately and I wonder if there is a solution in python 2.7

It is quite related to this topic but with further arguments: Better way to call a chain of functions in python?

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