[Tutor] Turtle help

[Peter Otten]

Carrie Udowychenko wrote:

> I am new to Python and have tried every command I can find but still do
> not seem to be able to access a turtle library and do any drawing.
> 
> I have tried: import turtle
> and from turtle import *

The difference between these two forms of import is that with the first you 
need qualified names...

import turtle

for i in range(4):
    turtle.forward(50)
    turtle.left(90)
turtle.exitonclick()

whereas the second allows you to use the names from the module directly:

from turtle import *

for i in range(4):
    forward(50)
    left(90)
exitonclick()

This may be more convenient for your first experiments, but will get 
confusing once you import more than a single module.

> But after both of these any commands like forward or right still show
> errors and forward is not recognized. Please help

Does the error look like this?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "turtle.py", line 1, in <module>
    from turtle import *
  File "/home/carrie/turtle.py", line 4, in <module>
    forward(50)
NameError: name 'forward' is not defined

This is called "traceback", and if you copy and paste it in your post asking 
for help you provide us with a very useful means to debug your problem. 
Without that we can only guess:

Did you call your own script

turtle.py

? Then it hides the "real" turtle module provided by Python.

Rename your script to myturtle.py, say, and it should work.