On Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:03:37 +1100, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > The *hardest* problem is naming things.
> > Fiction > ├─ Fantasy > │ ├─ Terry Pratchett > │ │ ├─ Discworld > │ │ │ ├─ Wyrd Sisters > │ │ │ └─ Carpe Jugulum [...] > what do we call the vertical and horizontal line elements? I want to make > them configurable, which means the user has to be able to pass an argument > that specifies them ... pstree(1) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pstree, http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/pstree.1.html) calls them "line drawing characters," and took a slightly different approach (I think) to the command line argument(s): The default is ASCII, or you can specify -G to specify the VT100 line drawing characters (G for Graphic, I assume), or you can specify -U for the UTF-8 line drawing characters. Dan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
