Python-list Digest, Vol 92, Issue 232

[Richard Parker]

 Sometimes
>> I'll drop in suggestions to future maintainers like, "consider
>> refactoring with with perform_frobnitz_action()"
> 
> Usually, I address future-me with comments like that (on the
> assumption that there's nobody in the world sadistic enough to want to
> maintain my code). But I never name future-me, the comments will be
> addressed to "the subsequent maintainer" or somesuch. I do assume,
> though, that future-me has forgotten everything about the code, and
> since past-me left some comments that current-me has read, I think the
> assumption is fairly accurate. (Did I *really* write that code? It has
> my name on it.....)
> 
> Chris Angelico
> 

Rather than sadistic, one would likely be masochistic to undertake the maintenance of  my code :-) I have had many moments where I have later asked the question "Did I write this code?."