Python ForEach Naughtiness

foreach.py

import __builtin__
import operator

def merge(a, b):
    a = a.copy()
    a.update(b)
    return a

class curry(object):
    def __init__(self, fn, *args, **kwargs):
        self.fn = fn
        self.args = args
        self.kwargs = kwargs.copy()

    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return self.fn(*(self.args + args), **merge(self.kwargs, kwargs))

def die(message, cls=Exception):
    """
        Raise an exception, allows you to use logical shortcut operators to test for object existence succinctly.

        User.by_name('username') or die('Failed to find user')
    """
    raise cls(message)

def unguido(self, key):
    """
        Attempt to find methods which should really exist on the object instance.
    """
    return curry((getattr(__builtin__, key, None) if hasattr(__builtin__, key) else getattr(operator, key, None)) or die(key, KeyError), self)

class mapper(object):
    def __init__(self, iterator, key):
        self.iterator = iterator
        self.key = key
        self.fn = lambda o: getattr(o, key)

    def __getattribute__(self, key):
        if key in ('iterator', 'fn', 'key'): return object.__getattribute__(self, key)
        return mapper(self, key)

    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.fn = lambda o: (getattr(o, self.key, None) or unguido(o, self.key))(*args, **kwargs)
        return self

    def __iter__(self):
        for value in self.iterator:
            yield self.fn(value)

class foreach(object):
    """
        Creates an output iterator which will apply any functions called on it to every element
        in the input iterator. A kind of chainable version of filter().

        E.g:

        foreach([1, 2, 3]).__add__(2).__str__().replace('3', 'a').upper()

        is equivalent to:

        (str(o + 2).replace('3', 'a').upper() for o in iterator)

        Obviously this will probably perform poorly and is not 'Pythonic'.
    """
    def __init__(self, iterator):
        self.iterator = iterator

    def __getattribute__(self, key):
        if key in ('iterator',): return object.__getattribute__(self, key)
        return mapper(self.iterator, key)

    def __iter__(self):
        for value in self.iterator:
            yield value

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print list(foreach([1, 2, 3]).add(2).str().replace('3', 'a').upper())