Newbie Q about Turtle Gfx

[Neil]

Thanks for the very speedy reply!

Not sure what your reply means but I have emailed the author with the 
problem!

Cheers

Neil

"sjbrown" <shandy.b at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:9ba48cb7-d32b-40ef-a6a6-d2250886379a at l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
It looks like there may be a bug if you were expecting t to be some
object other than a dict.  You can apparently contact the authour
here:

http://www.briggs.net.nz/log/contact/

On Feb 18, 2:16 pm, "Neil" <rubik_wiz... at NO.SPAMhotmail.com> wrote:
> 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