[Edu-sig] Anyone interested in discussing the turtle module?

[Jeff Elkner]

I had tried that, but I was concerned that it returned a None, so I
thought there was no way to refer to the screen after using it.
Trying it again, it seems:

import turtle

turtle.setup(800, 600)
wn = turtle.Screen()

alex = turtle.Turtle()
alex.forward(200)

wn.exitonclick()

works just fine.

Thanks, Corey!

jeff elkner
open book project
http://openbookproject.net

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Corey Richardson <kb1pkl at aim.com> wrote:
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> On 05/31/2011 04:59 PM, Jeff Elkner wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm working on an introductory CS book using Python with the turtle
>> module, but I'm finding the inability of turtle.Screen() to take
>> screen size arguments to be a real pain.  The screen size appears to
>> depend on the screen size of the host environment, which means
>> standardizing screen shots for the book becomes impossible.
>>
>> Any thoughts on this issue?  It would be a huge help in promoting
>> Python's use in education if we could make use of such a potentially
>> fine module as the turtle module, but I'm finding it very difficult to
>> write curriculum materials that use it since students don't have
>> control over the turtle's screen in any easy to use way.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> I believe you want turtle.setup,
> http://docs.python.org/library/turtle.html#turtle.setup
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> Corey Richardson
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