[python-advocacy] PythonTurtle

[cool-RR]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>wrote:

> cool-RR wrote:
>
>> Hello PSF,
>>
>> My name is Ram Rachum, and I'm a Python programmer. I wanted to show you a
>> little side project that I have just released.
>>
>> Here is its website: http://pythonturtle.com <http://pythonturtle.com/>
>> Which explains everything you need to know about it.
>>
>> You probably the know the turtle.py module which is part of the standard
>> library of Python: I was aware of it when I decided to start this project.
>> The main difference between PythonTurtle and the turtle module is that
>> PythonTurtle is a standalone application, easier to use and with illustrated
>> help screens.
>>
>
> Could you share code with the standard library module? The maintainer of
> the standard library turtle is very active.


I've met Gregor at EuroPython - He seemed to be enthusiastic about
PythonTurtle. Now that it's released I sent it to him and I'm waiting for
his feedback. I don't think there will be much sharing of code though, since
turtle.py is in Tkinter (I think) and PythonTurtle is in wxPython. Also, the
turtle-moving code is quite simple, the big time-drainer was writing a
decent shell (Which I am proud to say can now compete with IDLE.)


>
> For a version that can run in the browser I recommend Silverlight /
> Moonlight that will let you run Python code in the browser - and provides a
> canvas for the UI.


That will indeed be relevant for future version - Thanks for the tip

Ram.
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