Drawing in Python

Python is a lot of fun, and before we get to something complex, we also should have some fun and relax!

On https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html; you can find all the needed information about a funny library, called turtle.

I actually tried to show it to my son, and he had a lot of fun in seeing what was happening with the little turtle and the commands that I was giving.

To start, you will need to import the library, I will write a small code, that can help in drawing something very nice 🙂

import turtle as t
from turtle import *

def spirale(x):
    if x < 5:
        return
    else:
        spirale(x*0.9)
        forward(x)
        left(50)

        return
clear()
spirale(150)
done()

This small code will create a small spiral.
I am not an artist but for me it looks pretty.

As a small tip for this program just take the code and go ahead with modifications and try what you can get out of it. Personally I found it very nice, but not something where I would spend hours on.

There are a lot of example on how to perform complex nice draws, and it make sense to understand that basic commands are: left, forward, right, but also color, shape etc.

For my personal learning strategy, I learned from this code something different:

import turtle as t

I imported the module and understood that I always need to abbreviate it.

def spirale(x):

this is the way you always open a function and it is very easy to recognize it with this def command

Well we can do a lot more with turtle, but Python has so many funny and nice things that I think I will just go on with my articles and try to explain a bit more.