superpollo wrote: > alex23 wrote: >> On Jul 16, 9:18 pm, superpollo <u...@example.net> wrote: >> >>>lol. ;-) the title was indeed supposed to stir a bit of curiosity upon >>>the reader... >> >> >> Which isn't really useful when trying to obtain assistance... you want >> certainty, not curiosity. >> > > ok. my bad. > >> >>>in fact i was looking for a *platform independent* way to draw into a >>>graphics file (say, a postscript or a png) using the turtle module. so i >>>understand that "dumping a window" is not a good expression... maybe >>>"redirecting graphics commands to a file instead of a window"? >> >> >> You didn't actually answer Diez question. The turtle module is only a >> recent (2.6/3.0) addition to Python and is probably obscure enough not >> to have tracked across everyone's radar. >> > > actually i am still using 2.3.4, which means that... > >> screen = turtle.Screen() > > ... is not possible
Tested on 2.4: >>> import turtle >>> turtle.reset() >>> for i in range(4): ... turtle.forward(50) ... turtle.right(90) ... >>> turtle._canvas.postscript(file="tmp.ps") '' I think the big rewrite has happened in 2.6, so the above should also work in 2.3. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
