cool-RR schrieb:
Hi Ram,
that's indeed a nice starting point for kids to doing turtle graphics,
although currently it seems to implement only a very small subset of
Python's turtle module's capabilities, even less than those of the old
turtle module (that shipped with Python upto 2.5).
...
A text editor would be a good feature for future versions.
Regarding the naming of functions: I named them in the way that seemed
best to me. You seem not to agree, you like the way your functions are
named better, and there's little point in arguing over which
convention is truly better. The convention I chose is the one that
seemed ideal to me.
I did consider naming the functions the same way you did for
consistency, but I decided not to compromise the quality of
PythonTurtle just to be compatible with a module that my users may not
even use.
That's the advantage of not developing for the standard library. In fact
those elementary commands you use were present already in the old turtle
module. When I decided to extend the old turtle module a primary
requirement was that it remains 100% compatible to the old one. New
versions of a module in the standard library must not break code of
previous users of that module. In short: I did not name these functions
but I had to use the names that already were there.
Nevertheless I'd prefer left and right over turn even today, especially
for kids as I argued before.
Regards,
Gregor
It would be certainly a good thing if one had a similar environment
using Tkinter, preferably also as part of the standard distribution of
Python accompanying the turtle module. I think it should not be that
difficult to create a GUI of this sort combining IDLE's shell window,
its editor and turtle.py. Alas, at the moment I'm too busy with some
othr work to start a project like this. Perhaps someone else might be
interested? I'd enjoy to join a team doing it.
I agree that it shouldn't be difficult; The question is whether
someone will step up and do it.
Finally I'd like to stress, that the aims of PythonTurtle and Python's
turtle module are quite different - as one could grasp easily by trying
out the collection of examples at python-turtle-demo.googlecode.com that
I posted in another posting. Anyway they could very well complement one
another in some more mature state of development.
Best regards,
Gregor
Thank you for your feedback Gregor.
Ram Rachum.
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