Newbie Q about Turtle Gfx

[Neil]

Forgot to say, that after the error message the turtle window 'hangs' as 
unresponsive ...

"Neil" <rubik_wizard at NO.SPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ifidnR_GysdMFQHUnZ2dneKdnZzinZ2d at bt.com...
> Hello
>
> Sorry if this is not an appropriate newsgroup for this problem. I am very 
> new to Python but not new to programming.
>
> I am hoping to use Python to teach a class and have been looking at the 
> online book 'Snake Wrangling for Kids'.
>
> I have followed the example
>
>>>>import turtle
>>>>t=turtle.pen()
>
> which works fine and displays a turtle in a window.
>
> However whenever I try to use something like
>
>>>>t.forward(50)   (taken from the book)
>
> i get the error...
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
>    t.forward(50)
> AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'forward'
>
> I get the same error with t.left(10) etc. etc.
>
> I have tried this with V2.6 and V3
>
> Any ideas would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Neil
>
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