[issue11075] Using Turtle with IDLE on Mac OS X

2011-02-01 Thread Ned Deily
Changes by Ned Deily : -- assignee: -> ned.deily resolution: -> works for me stage: -> committed/rejected ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue11075] Using Turtle with IDLE on Mac OS X

2011-02-01 Thread Alex McNerney
Alex McNerney added the comment: solved* or rather, a workaround has been found. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list maili

[issue11075] Using Turtle with IDLE on Mac OS X

2011-02-01 Thread Alex McNerney
Alex McNerney added the comment: Thank you so much for pointing out the -n option! Hopefully the Tk 8.5.9 input issue will be solved soon enough. Thank you both again. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to or not, but I am marking this as closed – seeing as the main issue has been solved. --

[issue11075] Using Turtle with IDLE on Mac OS X

2011-02-01 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: I saw this post by Gregor: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/334881/focus=334996 I don't know applicable it still is on Windows. But it does seem to be still true on OS X. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11075] Using Turtle with IDLE on Mac OS X

2011-02-01 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Ah, in that case I think the docs could be improved on that point. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ P

[issue11075] Using Turtle with IDLE on Mac OS X

2011-02-01 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: It's clear from testing it and from some searches that -n is, in fact, required. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue11075] Using Turtle with IDLE on Mac OS X

2011-02-01 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Ned: I read the bits in the turtle docs about -n as meaning *if* you use -n *then* you should set this profile option (but if you don't, things should work). I didn't go over the docs in detail, though, so maybe I'm misreading. Since you and I clearly don'

[issue11075] Using Turtle with IDLE on Mac OS X

2011-02-01 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily added the comment: [Please don't add new topics to the same tracker issue. As David mentioned, it would be better to ask for help on one of the user lists to be sure before opening an issue. Besides the general python-list, there is an active OS X users list (pythonmac-sig) where

[issue11075] Using Turtle with IDLE on Mac OS X

2011-02-01 Thread Ned Deily
Ned Deily 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