Brian L. Troutwine wrote: > 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.
My guess is that he had to write a pretty printer so his cursing and general frustration and reading nasty nested tuples wouldn't wake the kids. -Adam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
