[Edu-sig] Any suggestions about turlte.py

[Vern Ceder]

Hello everyone,

As a consequence of my complaining about it in my PyCon talk, I have 
been invited to submit some patches for turtle.py. To my mind, turtle.py 
should be something that one could actually use for some very simple 
"programming with graphics" lessons, with NO tweaking or additional 
software.

So I think the following would be handy:

1. equally usable with either "import * from turtle" or "import turtle" 
imports
2. should open with a window covering at least half the screen (the 
current default is too small to be useful)
3. should offer some simple configuration choices for things like 
initial size and shape, but mostly rely on reasonable defaults
4. should offer a class wrapper so that that one could easily 
instantiate different turtles for a first experience with objects.
5. some minor tweaks to make it better behaved when run from IDLE

Does anyone have any feedback on these ideas or any other suggestions 
about how turtle.py might be improved without being fundamentally changed?

Note: this is about turtle.py only, for all its deficiencies. Any 
suggestions to try another library, system, or language will be 
cheerfully, but resolutely, ignored. ;)

Cheers,
Vern Ceder


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