Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> added the comment: Now that I looked at the documentation (http://docs.python.org/library/turtle.html), I see that it is clear that Turtle is designed to work from IDLE *but*, as is noted, "when using the module from within IDLE run with the -n switch", which means run IDLE without a subprocess. What may not be so obvious is how to do that on Mac OS X. Double-clicking on IDLE.app launches it with default values including a subprocess and there is no straightforward to override those. From a terminal shell, it is easy to start bin/idle:
$ idle2.7 -n although that has a few cosmetic disadvantages with bin/idle over IDLE.app (for example, the application name displayed is "Python" not "IDLE"). It has aways been possible to launch an OS X GUI app from a shell command line using the open(1) command; as of OS X 10.6 it is now also possible to pass regular command line arguments to the application. So the following would work in 10.6 and probably be preferable: $ open -a "/Applications/Python 2.7/IDLE.app" --args -n If you want to have a double-clickable application, a simple approach is to create a launcher application with AppleScript: $ osacompile -o 'IDLE-n.app' <<EOF > do shell script "open -a '/Applications/Python 2.7/IDLE.app' --args -n" > EOF As someone not used to using Turtle and given the intended user base for Turtle, I wonder whether the current Turtle module documentation is sufficient on this point. Two possible actions I could see are: (1) expanding the documentation to include a suggestion like the above to allow for an OS X clickable app; and/or (2) actually supplying such a simple no-subprocess app with the standard python.org installer distribution (or some other solution). How is this issue handled on Windows? Is there a need to expand the documentation in general? (adding Raymond to the nosy list) ---------- nosy: +rhettinger title: Turtle crash with IDLE on Mac OS X 10.6 -> Using Turtle with IDLE on Mac OS X versions: +Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11075> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
