Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-05 Thread John Posner
OK, then why the statements "from turtle import *" in the modules turtleprocess.py and turtlewidget.py? Yes, I see that now (he said meekly, too sheepish to complain about being misled by an unfortunate naming choice). Tx, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-04 Thread alex23
John Posner wrote: > OK, then why the statements "from turtle import *" in the modules > turtleprocess.py and turtlewidget.py? Looking in the source I'd say it's because there's a local turtle.py. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-04 Thread cool-RR
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:45 PM, John Posner wrote: > > Certainly John- although I have not embedded the turtle module at all, >> I just wrote my own. >> > > OK, then why the statements "from turtle import *" in the modules > turtleprocess.py and turtlewidget.py? > > Tx, > John > > It's from a mo

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-04 Thread John Posner
Certainly John- although I have not embedded the turtle module at all, I just wrote my own. OK, then why the statements "from turtle import *" in the modules turtleprocess.py and turtlewidget.py? Tx, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-04 Thread Gregor Lingl
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 t

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-04 Thread cool-RR
> 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). > I agree - an

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-04 Thread Gregor Lingl
cool-RR schrieb: On Aug 4, 7:12 am, John Posner wrote: ... I would also venture to say a key-map ... If you're asking WHY I put it in a wxPython application, the answer is pretty much what "r" said: To make it like any other "over the counter" Windows application, making people feel more co

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-04 Thread Gregor Lingl
cool-RR schrieb: Hello, I wanted to announce that I have just released my little side project, PythonTurtle. Here is its website: http://pythonturtle.com Its goal is to be the lowest-threshold way to learn (or teach) Python. You can read more about it and download it on the website. Ram. Hi

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-04 Thread cool-RR
On Aug 4, 7:12 am, John Posner wrote: > > ... I would also venture to say a key-map > > of sorts that is available thru the help menu where one could push an > > "Up" button, or a "rotate" button, and have the proper command > > inserted in the prompt, and then have the command execute, may also >

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-03 Thread John Posner
... I would also venture to say a key-map of sorts that is available thru the help menu where one could push an "Up" button, or a "rotate" button, and have the proper command inserted in the prompt, and then have the command execute, may also help make the connections here, a sort of *real* Visu

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-03 Thread r
On Aug 3, 8:53 pm, Asun Friere wrote: > On Aug 4, 6:35 am, r wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > I can remember the first time i used turtle (in python stdlib) and i > > kept saying to myself... > > >     "Were the heck is this damn turtle?!?!" (>_<) > > > :-) > > In Python2.6, try this: > > > > >>> turt

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-03 Thread Asun Friere
On Aug 4, 6:35 am, r wrote: [snip] > > I can remember the first time i used turtle (in python stdlib) and i > kept saying to myself... > >     "Were the heck is this damn turtle?!?!" (>_<) > > :-) In Python2.6, try this: >>> turtle.shape('turtle') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-03 Thread Mensanator
On Aug 3, 8:18 am, cool-RR wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to announce that I have just released my little side project, > PythonTurtle. > Here is its website:http://pythonturtle.com > > Its goal is to be the lowest-threshold way to learn (or teach) Python. > You can read more about it and download i

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-03 Thread r
On Aug 3, 5:03 pm, cool-RR wrote: [snip] > Thanks for the compliments; The things you mentioned you liked are all > things that I was specifically thinking about when I decided to make > PythonTurtle. Well, maybe minus the screenshot :) I *may* get roasted for this comment, but i think a turtle m

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-03 Thread cool-RR
On Aug 3, 11:35 pm, r wrote: > Hello, > I wanted to announce that I have just released my little side > project, > PythonTurtle. > [snip] > > I think it looks great --haven't download the source yet-- but i > really like the screenshot. This will be more "inviting" to the new, > inexperianced user

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-03 Thread r
Hello, I wanted to announce that I have just released my little side project, PythonTurtle. [snip] I think it looks great --haven't download the source yet-- but i really like the screenshot. This will be more "inviting" to the new, inexperianced users. I like the idea of packaging up the command

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-03 Thread cool-RR
On Aug 3, 7:04 pm, "Colin J. Williams" wrote: > cool-RR wrote: > > Hello, > > > I wanted to announce that I have just released my little side project, > > PythonTurtle. > > Here is its website: > >http://pythonturtle.com > > > Its goal is to be the lowest-threshold way to learn (or teach) Python.

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-03 Thread Colin J. Williams
cool-RR wrote: Hello, I wanted to announce that I have just released my little side project, PythonTurtle. Here is its website: http://pythonturtle.com Its goal is to be the lowest-threshold way to learn (or teach) Python. You can read more about it and download it on the website. Ram. It lo

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-03 Thread cool-RR
On Aug 3, 5:53 pm, André wrote: > On Aug 3, 10:18 am, cool-RR wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I wanted to announce that I have just released my little side project, > > PythonTurtle. > > Here is its website:http://pythonturtle.com > > > Its goal is to be the lowest-threshold way to learn (or teach) Pyt

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-03 Thread Hilmar Bunjes
André schrieb: I wanted to announce that I have just released my little side project, PythonTurtle. Here is its website:http://pythonturtle.com Its goal is to be the lowest-threshold way to learn (or teach) Python. You can read more about it and download it on the website. Ram. Why not make

Re: Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-03 Thread André
On Aug 3, 10:18 am, cool-RR wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to announce that I have just released my little side project, > PythonTurtle. > Here is its website:http://pythonturtle.com > > Its goal is to be the lowest-threshold way to learn (or teach) Python. > You can read more about it and download

Announcing PythonTurtle

2009-08-03 Thread cool-RR
Hello, I wanted to announce that I have just released my little side project, PythonTurtle. Here is its website: http://pythonturtle.com Its goal is to be the lowest-threshold way to learn (or teach) Python. You can read more about it and download it on the website. Ram. -- http://mail.python.o