Hi It turns out I should have used
t=turtle.Pen() and not t=turtle.pen() My stupid mistake! "Neil" <rubik_wiz...@no.spamhotmail.com> wrote in message news:jyydnb8xe8hpoghunz2dnuvz8juwn...@bt.com... > Thanks everyone! > > It appears the info in the book is wrong. Trying what you have all > suggested > has got it to work! > > Many thanks, and I am sure I will be back here again with other newbie > problems! > > Neil > > "Neil" <rubik_wiz...@no.spamhotmail.com> wrote in message > news:ifidnr_gysdmfqhunz2dnekdnzzin...@bt.com... >> Hello >> >> Sorry if this is not an appropriate newsgroup for this problem. I am very >> new to Python but not new to programming. >> >> I am hoping to use Python to teach a class and have been looking at the >> online book 'Snake Wrangling for Kids'. >> >> I have followed the example >> >>>>>import turtle >>>>>t=turtle.pen() >> >> which works fine and displays a turtle in a window. >> >> However whenever I try to use something like >> >>>>>t.forward(50) (taken from the book) >> >> i get the error... >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module> >> t.forward(50) >> AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'forward' >> >> I get the same error with t.left(10) etc. etc. >> >> I have tried this with V2.6 and V3 >> >> Any ideas would be much appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> Neil >> >> >> > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
