"Brian van den Broek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brian L. Troutwine said unto the world upon 19/09/06 05:30 PM: >> The heading comment to pprint reads: >> >> # This is a simple little module I wrote to make life easier. I >> didn't >> # see anything quite like it in the library, though I may have >> overlooked >> # something. I wrote this when I was trying to read some heavily >> nested >> # tuples with fairly non-descriptive content. This is modeled very >> much >> # after Lisp/Scheme - style pretty-printing of lists. If you find it >> # useful, thank small children who sleep at night. >> >> Is the last sentence an obscure reference or in-joke? Can someone >> explain it? I don't get it. >> > > Maybe it is an in-joke or reference that's blowing past me. But, I would > assume that the author has kids whose sound sleep at night left him or her > the time to code the module. > > Best, > > Brian vdB
Why don't you write the author and ask? His name and e-mail are right in the header, just before the lines that you cited. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
