Re: pprint: ...thank small children who sleep at night.
Brian L. Troutwine wrote: Is the last sentence an obscure reference or in-joke? Can someone explain it? I don't get it. do you have small kids? tried doing serious programming while they're still awake? /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: pprint: ...thank small children who sleep at night.
Brian L. Troutwine wrote: thank small children who sleep at night. That seems like the kind of sentence that could become a tagline or something, and you just have to be in the know to understand where it comes from. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: pprint: ...thank small children who sleep at night.
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
Re: pprint: ...thank small children who sleep at night.
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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: pprint: ...thank small children who sleep at night.
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
Re: pprint: ...thank small children who sleep at night.
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
