[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a compromise. we could tack Gregor Lingl's module under > the Tools directory. This makes the tool more readily available > for student use and allows it a more liberal zone to evolve than > if it were in the standard library.
That could also work. See my other compromise proposal: advertising it in the docs. > One other thought -- at PyCon, I talked with a group of > educators. While they needed some minor tweaks to the Turtle > module, there were no requests for an extensive rewrite or a > fatter API. The name of the game was to have a single module > with a minimal toolset supporting a few simple programs, just > rich enough to inspire, but small enough to fit into tiny slots in > the curriculum (one sixth grade class gets is allocated three 55 > minute sessions to learn programming). Thanks for the report. xturtle does provide a fatter API; it goes up from 50 turtle functions in turtle.py to 93 in xturtle.py (counting with len([s for s in dir(turtle) if 'a' < s <'z']) - I think turtle should grow an __all__ attribute). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
