Hello, following up http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/2011-July/005235.html here's 2 patch (for 3.3 + 3.2 and 2.7) to correct the orientation in the documentation, using turtle.right instead of turtle.left, since the work 'counterclockwise' (even if correct and already used) might be "too heavy". I don't think the sense of the introductory part is voided with the change in the method name instead of fixing what it does.

The orientation depends upon the mode, which is explained further
down.
http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/turtle.html#turtle.left

So, the correct fix would be: 
"would turn clockwise/counterclockwise depending upon the mode."

It seems to me that right() always turns the turtle clockwise, both with the "standard" and the "logo" mode.
I agree that changing left->right and leave clockwise is better than changing clockwise->counterclockwise.
I don't think it's worth mentioning the mode here.
(On a side note: I was expecting the 'turtle' to be an instance of some Turtle class defined in the turtle module, or perhaps a singleton, but it turned out that in 'turtle.right()' turtle is the module itself.  It might be better to say something like "After importing the :mod:`turtle` module, ...".)

As mentioned by Ezio, and I also verified myself, mode() doesn't influence the orientation on left()/right() methods (probably it affects some other functs?). Following was Ezio and I discussed on IRC, I've updated the 2 patches to add a small note that you have to import turtle before trying the mentioned commands.

Sandro - You could go ahead and commit this.

New changeset a30e6c4bf486 by Sandro Tosi in branch '2.7':
#12677: correct turtle orientation in doc
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a30e6c4bf486

New changeset bf4f65043d7d by Sandro Tosi in branch '3.2':
#12677: correct turtle orientation in doc
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/bf4f65043d7d

New changeset a7365994f4d6 by Sandro Tosi in branch 'default':
#12677: merge with 3.2
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a7365994f4d6