Setting RGB colors is weird

[metaodi]

When playing around with turtle a participant wanted to use RGB colors as described on the turtle page. He was used to enter RGB as 3 values from 0-255. It is not very clear how to do this, he always got this:

TurtleGraphicsError: bad color sequence: (255, 40, 5)

An example might help. To get it to work, you have to change the color mode of the turtle, then it works:

turtle.colormode(255)
turtle.color(255, 40, 5)

See also the turtle documentation about colormode().

[lpatmo]

Thanks!

[AnteDieEnte]

Thank you so much!