I recently published heckorator on pypi. It’s a cursed little project to make Python decorators more readable. But I actually started (and abandoned) the project 4 years ago!
What is heckorator?
For a full introduction (which I recommend you read, as I think it’s entertaining), see the project’s README file. But as a brief hook, compare the following two blocks of code:
x = [Button(position=i) for i in range(10)]
@x[0].on
def handle_click():
print("First button clicked!")
(you may have to scroll for this one)
from heckorator import _
x = [Button(position=i) for i in range(10)]
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def handle_click():
print("First button clicked!")
It is obvious that the latter version is much more readable!
This was initially made 4 years ago?
It’s true! I had the initial idea for this library back in 2020, and thought it was cool.
I got stuck with a design decision, however - at the time I wanted the decorators to be plain
and without a border, but decorator syntax requires at least one column of @s at the start of
each line. I didn’t exactly want there to be just a random column of pixels there (or for users
to be restricted to using characters whose bitmap has its left column filled). So I gave up on
the idea and moved on to other silly things.
When I found this folder on my laptop yesterday, I was reminded of how cool and silly I thought the idea was. It felt like a shame for it to never see the light of day, so I immediately fixed the design flaws by adding a border 😄 A little break helps a lot with problem-solving!
I guess I don’t have much else to add there. If you have old projects that you never got around to finishing, go take a look! You might have forgotten about them, but there could be uncut gems lying around!
That’s all! Bye bye, have fun with your projects! 😄