Vaticinator is yet another Python implementation of the ancient and (in)famous fortune program from the bsdgames package.
My motivation for writing it was more to have a portable library I could use to fetch fortunes for use in other projects. It's possible that one or more of the existing ones have this (I looked albeit briefly), but it was an itch I didn't mind scratching.
It is still alpha maturity level, though the majority of fortune behavior is implemented at the moment.
This is a the code for a Django template tag that displays a random fortune inside a template (with all the options from the command line available). This is basically why I created this project:
from django.template import Library
from vaticinator.vaticinator import Vaticinator
register = Library()
vaticinator = Vaticinator()
@register.simple_tag
def random_fortune(*args, **kwargs):
vaticinator.set_default_options()
vaticinator.process_options(*args, **kwargs)
return vaticinator.fortune
And the template:
<span>{% random_fortune 'short' 'all' %}</span>