gh-70758: Fix creating a turtle screen after closing one (GH-30355)

williamnavaraj · serhiy-storchaka · web-flow · commit 1286d4398e50 · 2026-08-09T21:01:24.000Z
Creating a new turtle screen after the previous one was closed no longer
raises turtle.Terminator on the first turtle command.

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka &lt;storchaka@gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/Lib/turtle.py b/Lib/turtle.py
@@ -1002,6 +1002,9 @@ def __init__(self, cv, mode=_CFG["mode"],
             rootwindow.wm_attributes(topmost=True)
             rootwindow.wm_attributes(topmost=False)
 
+        # A new screen means that turtle graphics is running again.
+        TurtleScreen._RUNNING = True
+
     def clear(self):
         """Delete all drawings and all turtles from the TurtleScreen.
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-01-03-12-50-42.gh-issue-70758.2NjFW_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-01-03-12-50-42.gh-issue-70758.2NjFW_.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Creating a new :mod:`turtle` screen after the previous one was closed no
+longer raises ``turtle.Terminator`` on the first turtle command.

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	`1`	+Creating a new :mod:`turtle` screen after the previous one was closed no
	`2`	+longer raises ``turtle.Terminator`` on the first turtle command.