In article <5790ee23-37d1-4cdd-b88b-a63c2b627c41 at k15g2000pri.googlegroups.com>, rusi <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote: > If I start turtle from idle, and issue commands from there, there are > all kinds of strange behaviors. Have you tried starting IDLE with the "-n" switch? http://docs.python.org/library/turtle.html -- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org