[Tutor] Problem with turtle

[Vern Ceder]

It looks like the indentation of n = n + 1 is wrong - it will be outside 
of the while loop and so n will never increment and the loop will never 
end.

Instead of a while loop I would suggest a for loop:

for n in range(10:
     <square and triange code here...>

HTH,

Vern

Marco Rompré wrote:
> I wanted turtle to draw alternatively a square and a triangle with a 
> space between them each with a specific color, angle(orientation as you 
> said), size. Instead, turtle was drawing a yellow square then it was 
> drawing a triangle on the sqare but with no lines whatsovever like it 
> was just going over it and the last problem was that it was never 
> stopping and i had to rstart the shell to make it stop.
> 
> I hope I am more precis with my explanations.
> 
> Thanks for helping me learn
> 
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com 
> <mailto:alan.gauld at btinternet.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     "Marco Rompré" <marcodrompre at gmail.com
>     <mailto:marcodrompre at gmail.com>> wrote
> 
> 
>         Hi! I am relatively new to python and turtle and I really need
>         your help.
> 
> 
>     Thats what we are hee for but....
> 
> 
>         Here's my code: ignore my comments
> 
> 
>     n=0
>     while n < 10 :
>       down()                         # abaisser le crayon
>       carre(25, 'yellow', 0)         # tracer un carré
>       up()
>       forward(30)
>       triangle(90, 'blue',0)
>     n = n + 1
> 
> 
>         If I am to vague I wanted to do successfully exercise 7.6 in
>         Gérard Swinnen
>         tutorial for Python
> 
>         It was supposed to look like this
> 
> 
>     So what happens? Is there an error message or does it just draw
>     the wrong thing? Don't make us guess...
> 
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     Alan Gauld
>     Author of the Learn to Program web site
>     http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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