I give up again. Here's my code which gives no error, but draws something that looks sort of like a dinosaur. I've included the first few lines of the text file mystery so you can see the format I received from the instructions.
Please help. Thank you. *****Mystery excerpt***** UP -218 185 DOWN -240 189 -246 188 -248 183 -246 178 ********** # Draw a picture based on the txt file mystery # When UP go to the next line, read x,y coordinates, go to that point # When DOWN go to the next line, read x,y coordinates, go to that point and continue until UP import turtle wn = turtle.Screen() # Set up the window and its attributes wn.bgcolor("beige") hadir = turtle.Turtle() # create hadir hadir.color('orange') hadir.speed(0) datums = open("C:/Users/Roger/Documents/GitHub/LaunchCode/mystery.txt", "r") for aline in datums: splitted = aline.split() try: coords = [int(i) for i in splitted] x = coords[0] y = coords[1] hadir.goto(x, y) except: while splitted == "UP": hadir.pu() while splitted == "DOWN": hadir.pd() turtle.exitonclick() -- Roger Lea Scherer 623.255.7719 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor