kirby urner wrote: >>kirby urner >> >>Kirby - question 1. Do you understand why your messages are coming to me as >>html? Makes it difficult to reply in normal form. >> >> > >No, didn't realize. Using Google's gmail. How about this one? > > > Not sure, because I am now at a machine using Thunderbird, rather than Outlook. It seems fine, but it might be just that Thunderbird handles the issue better than Outlook, though I am sure I have Outlook configured to reply in text and quote/indent the original message appropriately, and it ain't happening.
>Just a nitpicky comment that "Python's core" tends to mean "core >Python" and there's no move to inject a Turtle at that level. As >close as we get is turtle.py in the Standard Library. Python's other >turtles are outside even that. > > On the subject of the Standard Distribution, I have one and only one wish that I think would make the environment more beginner friendly- a good bang for the buck proposition.. And that it an IDLE that can accept command line arguments. There is a very specific reason why I think this is important. Gregor, or Art, or whoever has developed a module that works hard to be accessible to an average computer user. And have the appropriate setup.py file created. And the beginning of the relationship with the user is a need to explain to them to go to the command line (the what?) and type, getting the path to where their zip file extracted itself exactly right. Not the way I want to begin the relationship. What I want to say is to go to their normal Windows Start/Programs Files routine and under Python2x open up the IDLE environment, use the File/Open dialog as you have a million times before to find and open the setup.py file, and hit w/ Parameters selection under the Run Menu option and type in "install". Even that process is a little geekier than many like to get, and some will probably drop off, but that's OK with me- that much effort might be acceptable to expect as the price of admission. *After* using Gergor's, or Art's, or whoever's module for a time - something like going to the command line and typing something to get something done will not seem so out of the ordinary. But we are not there yet, and won't be getting there as often we might with this one little enhancement to IDLE. Excellent point, Art. Bring it up on the IDLE-Dev list. Well I have found the IDLE-Dev list to be a bit of a sink hole. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
