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
- Added quotes from "Monty Python's Life of Brian".
- Fixed running with
python -m oblique, which previously ignored command-line arguments.
- Added quotes from "The Book of Five Rings".
- Introduced the
--attributionparameter.
- No functional changes, build system replaced with Setuptools on uv.
- Introduced the
--of-the-dayparameter. - Now requires Python 3.9+.
- Fixed Python 3.10+ incompatibility with
random.sample. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
- Initial version.
Code is BSD-3 licensed. Koans attributed to Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt.