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

[Scott David Daniels]

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