commit-msg

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, os, re
from subprocess import check_output
from contextlib import closing
import urllib2
import json

commit_msg_filepath = sys.argv[1]
joke = ""

with closing(urllib2.urlopen('http://api.icndb.com/jokes/random')) as sf:
    response = json.loads(sf.read())
    joke = response['value']['joke']

with open(commit_msg_filepath, 'w') as f:
    f.write(joke)
    sys.exit(0)