> I want to get an improved, backward compatible patch into the standard > package fairly soon, so over the next few days I will see if I can't > come up with something that covers most of the ideas suggested here, > including Gregor's libraries to some extent. I will of course post it > for comments/testing before I send it along.
I volunteer to help add doc-strings (with examples) to the code if you would like such assistance. > I would also suggest that those of us who are interested in turtle > graphics consider what we want (even IF we want) in an extended turtle > package as well, and how much we would want to push for its inclusion in > the standard libraries. > > My sense is that some of us will be fine if the basic turtle.py is > usable, but others will really want more. Figuring out the "what" and > "how much" may take some time. Certainly Gregor's Xturtle package will > give us some direction in thinking about it. One other source of ideas for graphics beyond turtles is the ACM Java Task Force, which has just released a new version of the proposed acm package: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts//jtf/ Creating standard educational libraries like this for Python could be a real boon. Toby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
