Vladimir Panteleev:
Dicebot:Yeah "tee" is a horrible name, no chance I would have guess what it means just by the name. "tap" is much better.I think it's meant to mimic the UNIX command with the same name? If you know about the command, the function's purpose seems obvious.
See also the Python function tee(): http://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html#itertools.tee Bye, bearophile