You could always use a linux live cd ;) Heck some of them can even emulate linux in windows!
That's my best solution in the short time I've got. HTH, Wayne On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 1:26 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working through _Think Python_ in spare time at work on a Windows > machine (so another OS is not an option). I can't get TurtleWorld to run > as described in the book > (http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/book005.html). > > I'm replicating the issue described here: > > http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=481091 > > Using Windows XP, Idle v. 1.2.2, Python 2.5.2, Swampy 1.1. > > After adding Swampy to the modules path: > >>>> from TurtleWorld import * >>>> TurtleWorld() > <TurtleWorld.TurtleWorld instance at 0x00C4C968> > > No new window appears, or if it appears, it closes nearly instantaneously. > >>>> bob = Turtle() >>>> > > A new but empty window appears, titled "TurtleWorld (Not Responding)" > > Opening and running the TurtleWorld module through the Idle GUI menu > produces a functioning TurtleWorld window, but this is not useful for the > purposes of the exercises. > > This is probably more of an Idle/Windows issue than a python issue, but I > won't be able to get through Think Python unless I resolve it. Does anyone > have an answer? > > Thanks! > > Oliver > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. - Primo Levi _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
