Comment by Izkata

An alternative for python is to flip what you're iterating over at the outermost level. It's certainly not as clean as F# but neither is it as bad as the original example if there's a lot of functions:

  iter = [1,2,3,4]
  f1 = lambda x: x*2
  f2 = lambda x: x+4
  f3 = lambda x: x*1.25
  
  result = iter
  for f in [f1, f2, f3]:
    result = [f(v) for v in result]

Then the list comprehension can be moved up to mimic more closely what you're doing with F#, allowing for operations other than "map":

   result = iter
   for f in [
     lambda a: [f1(v) for v in a],
     lambda a: [f2(v) for v in a],
     lambda a: [f3(v) for v in a],
   ]:
     result = f(result)

And a step further if you don't like the "result" reassignment:

  from functools import reduce
  result = reduce(lambda step, f: f(step), [
    lambda a: [f1(v) for v in a],
    lambda a: [f2(v) for v in a],
    lambda a: [f3(v) for v in a],
  ], iter)