[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 31, Issue 16

Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Wed Mar 1 04:17:08 CET 2006


Toby Donaldson wrote:
> I used the Python turtle.py package last semester with about 500
> first-year university students, and two problems stood out above all
> others:
> 
>    1. The broken interaction between Idle and the turtle package.

On windows, I have an icon linked to:
     C:\Python24\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw -n
Does this expedient not work for you?

The -n means to use a single-process model (more fragile,
but the interaction of two GUI loops is not there).

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org



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