"Turtle" module is closely related to geometry, which is also covered by "math" (and "cmath") module. Nevertheless, in many places in "turtle" the wheel is being reinvented. Currently, only π and basing trig functions are used. Performance may be improved by such refactor (for example, by using "math.hypot" instead of manual calculation of vector norm).

Well, if you want to exploit Python features in full, I'd suggest cmath as even better library. Turtle position is just a complex numbers, and cmath has direct conversion from and to polar coordinates, which is all that's needed for basic commands. :-)

 New changeset 6844b56176c41f0a0e25fcd4fef5463bcdbc7d7c by Marek Madejski in branch 'master': bpo-41528: Use math module in turtle (GH-21837) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6844b56176c41f0a0e25fcd4fef5463bcdbc7d7c 

Complex numbers to be considered, of course. My first pull request, so I'd rather not make such a revolution this time. :)

You could post a suggested replacement for a couple of the expressions, with the warning that we would not necessarily use it. math.hypot has recently be worked over so that it is perhaps more accurate than the standard C version.