Raspberry Pi Python: Turtle Shapes

Exploring the interactive world of Turtle Graphics on your Raspberry Pi is easy with Python's 'turtle' module.

Here's a short Python program to create a pattern using coloured shapes.

from turtle import *

# set a shape and colour
shape("circle")
shapesize(5,1,2)
fillcolor("red")
pencolor("darkred")

penup()  # no drawing
goto(0, -100)

for i in range(72):
   forward(10)
   left(5)
   tilt(7.5)
   stamp()

exitonclick()

Create a new Geany file, enter the Python code, save it as turtle-shapes.py and execute the program. After you've seen it run modify the code to experiment with different shapes, fill colours and pen colours.

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