[Jython-dev] Interested in jturtle.py?

[Gregor L. <gre...@ao...>]

Hi all,

I just wanted to ask if the jython developer community were interested
in a port of turtle.py to Jython.

turtle.py, Tkinter based,  is part of the standard library of Python 
since Python 2.6/3.0
(Incidentally I'm the author of this module ;-) )

I've done a first, preliminary, port to Jython. You can find it here:

http://www.rg16.at/~glingl/jturtle-code/

For now, the module has still the name jturtle.

You can download jturtle.py and run it to see the demo included in the 
module itself.
Moreover you can download a bunch of demo scripts or the jturtle25.zip 
file which
contains all of them.(some of them are also part of the Python source 
code distro.)

The port is essentially restricted to the TurtleScreenBase class, which 
represents the
interface between some graphics toolkit and the rest of the turtle 
graphics code.

Please note, that I'm not a skilled Java progammer, so this code almost 
certainly
has a some flaws and moreover it has a couple of known issues. While all 
of the
examples are running, some of them show that they could well benefit 
from some
optimization.

If there  is some interest in coninuing to develop this module I'd be 
glad to do so,
moreover I would also be glad if I could find some Java-specialist to 
dicuss some problems
or - even better - to.cooperate in finishing and fine-tuning the port.

I'll come to Pycon 2009, where I'll give a talk on the new turtle 
module. So perhaps
one could find some opporunity to discuss how to proceed with this.

I'll not go into more details for now. Of course, if there is interest 
in this work, I'd could
go more into the details, but for now  //just would like to know if you 
think that this is
something appropriate for Jython.

With best regards
Gregor Lingl