Re: [Tutor] creating Turtle() object using 2 different ways

2014-02-01 Thread spir
On 01/31/2014 10:38 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: If you want multiple turtles you should use the first version. Yes, the turtle module has a global turtle that can be used by people playing with a single turtle, and prefere conventional procedural programming style, rather than object-oriented (OO).

Re: [Tutor] Code runs in interpreter but won't output to stdout

2014-02-01 Thread Walter Prins
Hi Bob, On 31 January 2014 21:59, bob gailer wrote: > On 1/29/2014 8:59 PM, scurvy scott wrote: > I signed up at Dogehouse. What the heck is it? There is no explanation as to > what it does or what I'd do with it! I don't know if you're familiar with BitCoin and the concept of the "pooled mining

[Tutor] help me

2014-02-01 Thread hind fathallah
hi can you answer this question for me plz   Modify the Guess My number program from this chapter so that the player has only five guesses. If the player run out of guess, the program should end the game and display an appropriately chastising message. ___

Re: [Tutor] help me

2014-02-01 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 01/02/2014 04:55, hind fathallah wrote: hi can you answer this question for me plz Modify the Guess My number program from this chapter so that the player has only five guesses. If the player run out of guess, the program should end the game and display an appropriately chastising message.

Re: [Tutor] help me

2014-02-01 Thread Danny Yoo
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:55 PM, hind fathallah wrote: > hi can you answer this question for me plz [question omitted] Many of us probably could answer this. But this is not a homework-answering mailing list. The problem itself is not interesting to us. What is interesting is why the problem

[Tutor] Best version for novice

2014-02-01 Thread Ian D
Hi Is it better to use python 3 as a newcomer who isn't really going to be writing any software as such just using it for learning? Also in 2.7 I use no subprocess by giving my python exe a -n argument, otherwise my canvas program's freeze. Is this needed also in version 3? Ta

Re: [Tutor] Code runs in interpreter but won't output to stdout

2014-02-01 Thread scurvy scott
Please always reply to the tutor list so we can all play with your question. --sorry about that Bob, I've now hit reply all. I am stuck at "import requests". Where did you get that module? --requests is a third party webscraping module. I signed up at Dogehouse. What the heck is it? There is no

Re: [Tutor] Best version for novice

2014-02-01 Thread Alan Gauld
On 01/02/14 18:41, Ian D wrote: Is it better to use python 3 as a newcomer who isn't really going to be writing any software as such just using it for learning? The more important question is which version does your preferred tutorial use? Both versions will teach you a lot about programming

Re: [Tutor] Best version for novice

2014-02-01 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 06:41:10PM +, Ian D wrote: > Hi > > Is it better to use python 3 as a newcomer who isn't really going to > be writing any software as such just using it for learning? Yes, you should use Python 3, with one proviso: many tutorials, especially the older ones, are base

Re: [Tutor] Best version for novice

2014-02-01 Thread eryksun
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > I'm afraid that I have no idea what you are talking about here, Python > doesn't accept a -n argument: -n is an IDLE option: If IDLE is started with the -n command line switch it will run in a single process and will not create t