Re: [Edu-sig] mac python graphics

2011-12-07 Thread Kirby Urner
Somewhat tangentially bouncing around in this vicinity, I offer these remarks re our situation at work, where we want students connecting over the wire to have good first experience using Python. Retention is an issue. The school's guiding philosophy requires providing real hands-on programming ex

Re: [Edu-sig] mac python graphics

2011-12-07 Thread John Zelle
gmail.com] on behalf of Andrew Harrington [ahar...@luc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 2:27 PM To: John Zelle Cc: edu-sig@python.org Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] mac python graphics Thanks, Juhn. I had somehow missed the latest version. What complications does the single threading bring? On Wed,

Re: [Edu-sig] mac python graphics

2011-12-07 Thread Andrew Harrington
; > --John > > John Zelle, PhD > Professor of Computer Science > Wartburg College > > -- > *From:* > edu-sig-bounces+john.zelle=wartburg@python.org[edu-sig-bounces+john.zelle= > wartburg@python.org] on behalf of Andrew Harrington [ahar...@luc.ed

Re: [Edu-sig] mac python graphics

2011-12-07 Thread davelist
On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Andrew Harrington wrote: > I just got my first Mac. I know issues with Mac graphics have been discussed > before, but I'm not sure what is relevant with OSX Lion. > > With the active state Tcl and the standard python.org python and idle appears > fine. > Still i

Re: [Edu-sig] mac python graphics

2011-12-07 Thread Jason R Briggs
Argh. iPhone big finger button clumsiness. Don't know if my reply sent or not. So trying again... Try running idle in no sub process mode. Add -n to the cmd line args. On 12/7/11, Andrew Harrington wrote: > I just got my first Mac. I know issues with Mac graphics have been > discussed before, b

Re: [Edu-sig] mac python graphics

2011-12-07 Thread John Zelle
07, 2011 11:45 AM To: edu-sig@python.org Subject: [Edu-sig] mac python graphics I just got my first Mac. I know issues with Mac graphics have been discussed before, but I'm not sure what is relevant with OSX Lion. With the active state Tcl and the standard python.org<http://python.org

[Edu-sig] mac python graphics

2011-12-07 Thread Andrew Harrington
I just got my first Mac. I know issues with Mac graphics have been discussed before, but I'm not sure what is relevant with OSX Lion. With the active state Tcl and the standard python.org python and idle appears fine. Still if I try running a Zelle graphic program inside or outside idle I get a f