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)