Lancer

Ever heard of Black? This is the opposite. A tool to turn your clean python code into a hideous (working) mess.

Features

Turn all comments into Pitbull lyrics 💃 (or optionally, something safe for work)
Turn all your variable names into a mixture of animal sounds and horribly similar looking characters like "bark_bark_0OO0O". 🐶
Add irritating white spaces.
Add new, totally redundant comments.
Code still runs after all these improvements! 👷

Example

Before:

# Function that finds the sum of a list of numbers
def get_sum(nums: List[int]) -> int:

    sum = 0

    # Find the sum
    for num in nums:
        sum += num

    # Return the sum
    return sum

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sum = get_sum([1, 3])
    print(f"Sum of 1 and 3 is {sum}")

After:

# Hey baby, givin' it your all when you're dancin' on me
def oink_oink_oink_IlΙlll (ribbit_ααaαα :List [int ])->int :

    # Setting value of sum
    sum =0

    # Bada bing, bada boom
    for num in ribbit_ααaαα :
        sum +=num

        # there's nothing like Miami's heat
    return sum

if __name__ =='__main__':
    # Setting value of sum
    sum =oink_oink_oink_IlΙlll ([1 ,3 ])
    print (f"Sum of 1 and 3 is {sum}")

Installation and Usage

Simply run pip install py-lancer and then use the lance command line tool.

usage: lance [-h] [--version] -f ./FILE_PATH.py [-s][-y]

Ever heard of Black? This is the opposite.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -f ./FILE_PATH.py, --file ./FILE_PATH.py
                        Python file to be lance'd.
  -s, --sfw             Generate comments that are safe for work.
  -y, --yolo            Overwrite original file, lol.

So if you have a python file at ./test.py, you simply run lance -f ./test.py

How does it work

The key tool we use it the tokenizer standard module in python. It allows us to tokenize any python script which then in turn makes substituting comments and variable names fairly simple. Check out the source code for more details.

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