What is a nit(sp?) function.

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Antoon Pardon
<antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> I have been looking at some python talks on you tube:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0
>
> and
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPiWg5jSoZI
>
> And these two both mentioned nits or nit functions or something
> like that. I tried to google it but came up empty.

They're fairly long, each; can you point me to the exact point where
the term is said?

It might be an accent difference on a word like "neat" as in simple,
tidy, elegant.

ChrisA