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Welcome to the Scato
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Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Michurin Alexey


Intro
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Scato is the turtle programming language that is designed to plot
fractals (IFS), L-systems, and other self-similar curves, and not
just their.


Requirements
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Scato require Python version 2.3 - 2.6 (2.6 preferable) and
Tkinter library, that included in most Python distributions.


Install
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This module was packaged and distributed in the standard way,
i.e. using the Python Distutils. So it can installed how
described in Python documentation here:
http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#standard-build-and-install

You need to do some commands like this:

  tar xzf scato-VER.tgz
  cd scato-VER
  python setup.py build
  sudo -s
  python setup.py install


Run without installation
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You can run Scato without installation. Just unpack it, change
current directory to the distribution, and do something like this
(sh/bash):

  PYTHONPATH=`pwd` python script/scato

or the same

  export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`
  python script/scato

Enjoy!


Contributing and Feedback
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You can contribute to Scato project by sending ideas or comments to
author by e-mail a.michurin@gmail.com.

Information about the Scato, its subversion, issues, etc. can be
found on the Scato website http://scato.googlecode.com.