Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
I've used turtle.py quite a bit in my teaching, and a common question is how learners can save their files. Now, the turtle library only supports saving the drawings as postscript files by calling the cryptic command turtle.getscreen().getcanvas().postscript(file=filename). Whenever a learner asks “How can I print what I made?”, I’ll have to show them that extremely scary command with method chaining -- not the best snippet to show someone who’s still struggling with functions…
If we instead had a turtle.save("filename.ps"), then I could tell the learners to use that function and an online postscript to pdf converter, which should be understandable to most learners
Has this already been discussed elsewhere?
I have already discussed this feature proposal on Discourse
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
https://discuss.python.org/t/improving-the-turtle-library/61840
Linked PRs
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
I've used
turtle.pyquite a bit in my teaching, and a common question is how learners can save their files. Now, the turtle library only supports saving the drawings as postscript files by calling the cryptic commandturtle.getscreen().getcanvas().postscript(file=filename). Whenever a learner asks “How can I print what I made?”, I’ll have to show them that extremely scary command with method chaining -- not the best snippet to show someone who’s still struggling with functions…If we instead had a
turtle.save("filename.ps"), then I could tell the learners to use that function and an online postscript to pdf converter, which should be understandable to most learnersHas this already been discussed elsewhere?
I have already discussed this feature proposal on Discourse
Links to previous discussion of this feature:
https://discuss.python.org/t/improving-the-turtle-library/61840
Linked PRs