On 8/2/2014 3:46 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 02/08/2014 07:45, Mark Summerfield wrote:
Last week I spent a couple of days teaching two children (10 and 13 --
too big an age gap!) how to do some turtle graphics with Python.
Neither had programmed Python before -- one is a Minecraft ace and the
other had done Scratch.
Suggestion #1: Make IDLE start in the user's home directory.
Entirely agree. Please raise an enhancement request on the bug tracker
if there isn't already one.
Suggestion #2: Make all the turtle examples begin "from turtle import
*" so no leading turtle. is needed in the examples.
I'm not so sure about this, but raise an enhancement request and see
what happens. Worst case it gets rejected, best case it gets accepted,
implemented and patch applied.
Suggestion #3: Make object(key=value, ...) legal and equiv of
types.SimpleNamespace(key=value, ...).
Haven't the faintest idea and too lazy to find out :) I suggest follow
advice from #2.
Mark L: I think that redirecting discussion to the tracker a hour after
these ideas were posted, certainly for #2 and #3, which you were
rightfully unsure about, was a bit premature. Enhancement ideas
generally benefit from being cooked a bit longer on one or another
discussion list.
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