Hi Andre, I'm sorry that you did not like my response when I was triaging all of the open Turtle issues.
I am happy to change the status back to open. All that you needed to do was ask politely and give me a chance, as a volunteer, to have the time to do so. Regards, Carol > On Jun 17, 2018, at 1:41 PM, Andre Roberge <andre.robe...@gmail.com > <mailto:andre.robe...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > So, a little over 3 years after I submitted a bug report (see previous > conversation below) **with a fix** so that no one would have to explain why > "right()" could result in a turtle turning left, and vice-versa, my > submission was refused and the bug report was closed with the following > explanation: > > " > I'm closing this issue since introducing this suggested change would impact > teaching materials and resources that have already been published. This would > be a change that would break compatibility. > " > I'm curious: does anyone on the edu-sig list has written teaching material > for the turtle module that sets world coordinates such that left and right > are reversed? If so, how do you explain it to students? > > Rant: This is the third time that I submit either a bug report for cPython > **with** a proposed fix, or simply a fix for an existing bug report and that > it is either rejected or dismissed with no alternative solution proposed. > Thankfully, the folks here on edu-sig have been much more supportive since I > joined, almost 15 years ago. /rant > > André > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:48 PM Andre Roberge <andre.robe...@gmail.com > <mailto:andre.robe...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Jurgis Pralgauskis > <jurgis.pralgaus...@gmail.com <mailto:jurgis.pralgaus...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi, > > usually in computer graphics Y is counted to increase downwards. > I casn do it with: setworldcoordinates(0, 400, 600, 0) > > but then, "right(..)" turns to the left :/ > > > I could swap: > right, left = left, right > > but on errror I get a bit misleading message > > >>> right() > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#10>", line 1, in <module> > right() > TypeError: left() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given) > > I thought to make this hack for kids, so better clearer error msgs... > > Any Ideas? > > http://bugs.python.org/issue23660 <http://bugs.python.org/issue23660> > (includes a proposed "permanent" fix). > > André > > > Thanks :) > -- > Jurgis Pralgauskis > tel: 8-616 77613; > Don't worry, be happy and make things better ;) > http://galvosukykla.lt <http://galvosukykla.lt/> > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org <mailto:Edu-sig@python.org> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig> > > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org <mailto:Edu-sig@python.org> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
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