Oblique Strategies for Python

Shows koans from Oblique Strategies.

You can get the official physical card set as well.

❯ pip install oblique
❯ python -m oblique --help
Usage: python -m oblique [OPTIONS]

Options:
  --edition TEXT   Which OS editions to include?  [default: 1,2,3,4]
  --extra          Include additional koans found online  [default: False]
  --python         Include Monty Python quotes  [default: False]
  --five-rings     Include quotes from 'The Book of Five Rings'  [default: False]
  --count INTEGER  How many koans to show  [default: 3]
  --of-the-day     Show one koan from the set chosen for today by a
                   reproducible pseudo-random algorithm. If set, --count is
                   ignored.  [default: False]
  --attribution    Append attribution to the printed out koan(s).
                   [default: False]
  --help           Show this message and exit.

❯ oblique
Faced with a choice, do both (from Dieter Rot)
Do something sudden, destructive and unpredictable
Move towards the unimportant

Change Log

25.5.0

• Added quotes from "Monty Python's Life of Brian".
• Fixed running with python -m oblique, which previously ignored command-line arguments.

25.4.0

• Added quotes from "The Book of Five Rings".
• Introduced the --attribution parameter.

25.2.1

• No functional changes, build system replaced with Setuptools on uv.

25.2.0

• Introduced the --of-the-day parameter.
• Now requires Python 3.9+.

25.1.0

• Fixed Python 3.10+ incompatibility with random.sample. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.

22.2.0

• Initial version.

License

Code is BSD-3 licensed. Koans attributed to Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt.