It looks like there may be a bug if you were expecting t to be some object other than a dict. You can apparently contact the authour here:
http://www.briggs.net.nz/log/contact/ On Feb 18, 2:16 pm, "Neil" <rubik_wiz...@no.spamhotmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > Sorry if this is not an appropriate newsgroup for this problem. I am very > new to Python but not new to programming. > > I am hoping to use Python to teach a class and have been looking at the > online book 'Snake Wrangling for Kids'. > > I have followed the example > > >>>import turtle > >>>t=turtle.pen() > > which works fine and displays a turtle in a window. > > However whenever I try to use something like > > >>>t.forward(50) (taken from the book) > > i get the error... > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module> > t.forward(50) > AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'forward' > > I get the same error with t.left(10) etc. etc. > > I have tried this with V2.6 and V3 > > Any ideas would be much appreciated. > > Thanks > Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
