Paul McGuire wrote: > "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. > Knowing Fred, he was probably too busy earning a living to write the code during the day and too conscientious to leave his kids alone to write it during the evening.
Good job, Fred (Fred is *way* under-appreciated). regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
