[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] xturtle and 3.0

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Gregor Lingl <gregor.lingl at aon.at> wrote:
>
>
>  Brett Cannon schrieb:
>  > ...
>
> > The current plan is to introduce a tk package and turtle was to become
>  > tk.turtle. xturtle, if picked up, can just take the place of the
>  > current turtle at that location.
>  >
>  > -Brett
>  >
>  Hi Brett,
>
>  as you probably can imagine, I'd like to try out xturtle.py with Python 2.6
>  Alas, I didn't succeed installing Python 2.6 correctly on my Windows
>  machine using
>  the Windows msi installer.
>
>  Whereas I could start the python interpreter successfully it was
>  impossible to use it
>  to execute either idle.py nor turtle.py
>
>  In the first case I got an import error:
>
>  import _socket
>  Import Error: DLL load failed
>
>  in the second one likewise
>
>  import _tkinter
>  Import Error: DLL load failed
>
>  A look on sys.path showed the DLLs directory to be present there.
>  Do you have an explanation for this behaviour? What can I do to
>  avoid it? Do I have to take some special action when installing the
>  alpha release (I did it "for this user only")?

I don't use Windows so I can't help with that. But you might want to
try a checkout and build from source. You can find instructions in the
PCbuild directory.

-Brett