code critique requested - just 60 lines

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

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<cd479177-3549-400b-8414-cb0243236cc4 at x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
Terrence Brannon wrote:

> On Oct 2, 11:56 am, bearophileH... at lycos.com wrote:
>
>> Terrence Brannon, I suggest you to shorten a lot some of those very
>> long lines.
> 
> yes, I wanted to, but was not sure how to continue a line on the next
> line in Python.

Did you check the manual?

<http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html>