Guido van Rossum schrieb:
The old turtle.py explicitly says from math import * # Also for export so I think it's desirable to keep this behavior. My intent with that line was that an absolute beginner could put "from turtle import *" in their interactive session and be able to use both the turtle code and the high-school math functions that might come in handy, like sin() and cos(). The other math functions don' really hurt I believe. Where there's a naming conflict, obviously the turtle module wins. --Guido
Thanks for the quick reply, I'll do it this way. Gregor P.S.: I'd just like to add one (critical) remark which results from some decades working as a highschool teacher and (nearly) one decade working with Python, and especially turtle graphics with highschool students: sin() and cos() imported from math work with radians. The default angle-mode for turtle is degrees. So when using trig-functions I have to talk about radian measure and conversion of angle units. To calculate the sine of 30 degrees for instance I had to call sin(radians(30)) etc., but unfortunately just this radians() functions is not available anymore when doing from turtle import *. So in this case this import is of limited use. And it definitely makes sense to tell highschool students that sin(), cos() and friends live in a module called math. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
