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Python beginner cheatsheet, playing with turtles

Turtle Pen

turtle.up()
Sets the pen state to be up (not drawing).
turtle.down()
Sets the pen state to be down (drawing).
turtle.co­lor­(r,g,b)
See below
turtle.co­lor(s)
Sets the color that the pen will draw until the color is changed. It takes either
 
1. three arguments, each a floating point number between 0.0 — 1.0, where the first the amount of red, the second is the amount of green, and the third is the amount of blue
 
2. a “color string” the name of a TK color (e.g., “black”, “red”, “blue”, ...)
turtle.be­gin­_fill()
See below
turtle.en­d_f­ill()
To fill a figure, use turtle.be­gin­_fill() before you start drawing the figure. Draw the figure. Then execute turtle.en­d_f­ill(). The figure drawn between the two fill commands will be filled with the present color setting.
turtle.hi­det­urtle()
See below
turtle.sh­owt­urtle()
Sets the state to hide / show the turtle. When shown, you see it as a small arrowhead pointed in the direction of the heading.
The default pen color is “black”.

Turtle other

turtle.xc­or(), turtle.ycor()
Returns the x - coordinate / y - coordinate of the current pen position.
turtle.bye()
Close the turtle drawing window
 

Turtle Draw

turtle.ri­ght­(de­grees)
Turns the direction that the turtle is facing right (clock­wise) by the amount indicated (in degrees).
turtle.le­ft(­deg­rees)
Turns the direction that the turtle is facing left (counter clockwise) by the amount indicated (in degrees).
turtle.fo­rwa­rd(­dis­tance)
Moves the turtle forward (in the direction the turtle is facing) the distance indicated (in pixels). Draws a line if the pen is down, not if the pen is up.
turtle.ba­ckw­ard­(di­stance)
Moves the turtle backward (in the direction opposite to how the turtle is facing) the distance indicated (in pixels). Draws a line if the pen is down, not if the pen is up.
turtle.se­the­adi­ng(­angle)
Sets the orient­ation of the turtle to angle. Here are some common directions in degrees:
 
0 (east)
 
90 (north)
 
180 (west)
 
270 (south)
turtle.go­to(x,y)
Moves the turtle to the specified coordi­nates, drawing a straight line to the destin­ation (x,y) if the pen is down, and not drawing if the pen is up.
turtle.ci­rcl­e(r­adius)
Draws a circle of the indicated radius. The turtle draws the circle tangent to the direction the turtle is facing.
               
 

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  • Published: 22nd March, 2015
  • Last Updated: 12th May, 2016
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you forgot about the position() method

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