How do I make the turtle go to the edge of the screen in python?

[DietzDiet]

How do I make the turtle go to the edge of the screen in python? I am trying to do that but it goes off screen every time
 

from turtle import Turtle, Screen

screen = Screen()

screen.setup(width=500, height=400)
answer = screen.textinput(title="Choose Your Turtle", prompt="Which turtle do you think will win? Red, Green, Blue , Yellow, or Pink!")

tim = Turtle()

tim.penup()

tim.goto(x=-250, y=0)
tim.showturtle()
tim.pendown()

screen.exitonclick()

 

[Sauron]

The screen has a border that covers part of the edges and since the position is relative to the center of the sprite it's hidden by the border when you send it right to the edge. Just send it to -240 or so instead.

 

If you want to better understand what's happening I suggest you try the live interpreter instead of running the whole script. This will let you try different numbers and realize what you're doing wrong. It will get you a lot farther and a lot faster than just asking here for every tiny problem.

[BobVonBob]

Your problem is using goto with a negative number.

 

Turtle coordinates start with (0, 0) in the top left corner, and go to (width, height) in the bottom right corner. Increasing x goes right, decreasing goes left, increasing y goes down, decreasing goes up. So in your case goto(-250, 0) means go to 250 pixels left of the top left corner, which is off the screen.

 

Nope. Totally wrong. I was thinking of another similar library.