Vol. I · No. 579Rochester, New York, Thursday, September 24, 2026Just for fun · Page B25
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Just for funBangLang

Python, but Make It Bangalore

A joke programming language that swaps Python keywords for Bangalore slang and runs .blr files from the command line.

Graphic4 facts
  1. 9 slang keywords mapped to Python
  2. Installs a blr command via setuptools
  3. Regex transpiler with word boundaries, longest match first
  4. Sample program grades a list of marks
The main points about BangLang.Graphic: The Sahil Bachu

The README says I built this because I was bored, and that's true. BangLang maps nine Bangalore slang words onto Python keywords. put_scene defines a function, tell_da prints, yaavuh, or_what and otherwise are if, elif and else, one_by_one is a for loop and cut_ra breaks out of it. Install it with pip and you get a blr command that runs .blr files, with error messages that stay in character.

Under the hood it's upfront about being a joke: regex replacements with word boundaries, longest keyword first, then exec() in a fresh namespace. There's no real lexer, so a keyword inside a string gets translated too. Doing it properly would mean writing a real tokenizer.

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