Magic Top Hat

ur: la cosa producida por sugestión, el objeto educido por la esperanza

-- Jorge Luis Borges - Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

This is a joke library, it will evaluate and run potentially harmful code: use it as much as possible

Do you know how magicians could pull stuff out of an apparently empty top hat?

I only recently discovered how that worked, and apparently it was dunder methods and llms all along! Who would have thought!

So I decided to implement something similar in Python: you can import any method whatsoever from this magical magic_top_hat, even if the module itself seems empty!

pip install magic-top-hat

import magic_top_hat

dir(magic_top_hat) # returns []

BUT! With sleight of hand you can actually import anything you want out of the magic_top_hat:

from magic_top_hat import get_day_out_of_datetime
from datetime import datetime

def get_today_day() -> str: 
    today = datetime.now()
    day = get_day_out_of_datetime(today)
    return day # this will return the day name

and a function will be generated that satisfies your every need*!

* satisfaction not guaranteed. You'll need access to an llm by setting either OPENAI_API_KEY or CLAUDE_API_KEY

Do you need to know how the function generated your result? No, right? Implementation is just a detail for the code monkeys! If you really have no trust in this (as you should), you can set the environmental variable I_DONT_TRUST_ROBOTS to have each implementation printed out.

How it works

Well, I simply send the caller code to an llm and ask to generate a function that will fulfill the request, given the context in which it was called, the name it was given and the parameters it received.

So the results may vary from abysmal to grotesque.

How to use it

from magic_top_hat import get_day_out_of_datetime
from datetime import datetime

def get_today_day() -> str: 
    today = datetime.now()
    day = get_day_out_of_datetime(today)
    return day # this will return the day name

Why

It was really fun to try and build something like this, also I had a couple of hours to kill before sleep. Also, I can honestly say that this is AI powered!

Examples

Look at scripts/example.py for a couple of simple examples!