Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

I've used turtle.py quite a bit in my teaching, and a common question is how learners can save their files. Now, the turtle library only supports saving the drawings as postscript files by calling the cryptic command turtle.getscreen().getcanvas().postscript(file=filename). Whenever a learner asks “How can I print what I made?”, I’ll have to show them that extremely scary command with method chaining -- not the best snippet to show someone who’s still struggling with functions…

If we instead had a turtle.save("filename.ps"), then I could tell the learners to use that function and an online postscript to pdf converter, which should be understandable to most learners

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

I have already discussed this feature proposal on Discourse

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

https://discuss.python.org/t/improving-the-turtle-library/61840

Linked PRs

• gh-123614: Add save function to turtle.py #123617