prank

Turns every uncaught exception into emotional damage.

Tested on countless unfortunate exceptions.

Side effects may include laughter, frustration, and questioning your life choices.

⚠️ If you use this in production, we need to have a serious talk, dude.

Features

• Does absolutely nothing useful.
• Compatible with your worst debugging session.
• Zero dependencies.
• Zero configuration.
• Zero benefits.
• Maximum emotional damage.
• Rare (1%) and Ultra Rare (0.1%) messages.
• Every exception has multiple sarcastic message variants.
• Over 300 unique messages across common exception types.
• Makes every crash a little more memorable.
• Makes Python just a little bit more sarcastic.

Installation

pip install prank

No restart required.

Emotional damage starts immediately.

Usage

import prank

prank.install()

Congratulations.

Your future exceptions are no longer alone.

Now wait for your next bug.

Example

Possible outputs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

Math is hard.

RuntimeError: Oops

Who wrote this code?

Or maybe...

AttributeError: ...

Maybe None isn't what you thought it was.

The same exception can also produce a different sarcastic message on another run:

ZeroDivisionError: division by zero

The calculator has left the building.

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'config.yaml'

This path has entered the witness protection program.

Or, if you're incredibly lucky...

Developer console unlocked.

API

prank.install()

Enable prank mode.

prank.uninstall()

Disable prank mode.

prank.is_installed()

Returns whether prank is currently installed.

FAQ

Does it fix bugs?

No.

Does it improve debugging?

Also no.

Then what's the point?

Because debugging is already painful. It might as well be funny.

Is this a serious project?

No.

Is this a joke?

Yes.

Then why is the code actually well-written?

...

Can I disable it?

Yes.

prank.uninstall()

License

Licensed under the MIT License.

No warranty.

Especially emotional warranty.

Read more in the disclaimer here.