CowExcept

Spice up those exceptions with cowexcept!

 ______________________________________ 
< NameError: name 'baz' is not defined >
 -------------------------------------- 
     \   ^__^
      \  (oo)\_______
         (__)\       )\/\
             ||----w |
             ||     ||

Install

pip install cowexcept

Usage

All you have to do to get started is activate cowexcept and then any exceptions whenceforth will be in beautiful cowsay format:

>>> import cowexcept
>>> cowexcept.activate()
>>> 1/0
 _______________________________________ 
/ Traceback (most recent call last):    \
|   File "...", line 1, in ...          |
\ ZeroDivisionError: division by zero   /
 --------------------------------------- 
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

The cowexcept.activate() call is to avoid unused import flags from IDEs or style checkers and avoiding any import-time side effects. If unused imports and import-time side effects do not bother you, and you would prefer to avoid the horrible extra line used to explicitly activate cowexcept, use import cowexcept.auto instead and this will activate cowexcept on import.

To deactivate cowexcept call cowexcept.deactivate() and any exceptions will be handled as before.