3 Suggestions to Make Python Easier For Children

Sat Aug 2 04:03:02 EDT 2014

On Saturday, 2 August 2014 08:46:04 UTC+1, Mark Lawrence  wrote:
> On 02/08/2014 07:45, Mark Summerfield wrote:
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> > Suggestion #1: Make IDLE start in the user's home directory.
> 
> Entirely agree.  Please raise an enhancement request on the bug tracker 
> if there isn't already one.

Done: http://bugs.python.org/issue22121

> > Suggestion #2: Make all the turtle examples begin "from turtle import *" so no leading turtle. is needed in the examples.
> 
> I'm not so sure about this, but raise an enhancement request and see 
> what happens.  Worst case it gets rejected, best case it gets accepted, 
> implemented and patch applied.

Done: http://bugs.python.org/issue22122

> > Suggestion #3: Make object(key=value, ...) legal and equiv of types.SimpleNamespace(key=value, ...).
> 
> Haven't the faintest idea and too lazy to find out :)  I suggest follow 
> advice from #2.

Done: http://bugs.python.org/issue22123

Mark.