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A save function in the Turtle module #123614
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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
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yngvem commentedon Sep 2, 2024
@MarieRoald and I will submit a pull request on this shortly
pythongh-123614: Add save function to turtle.py
[-]# A save function in the Turtle module[/-][+]A save function in the Turtle module[/+]pythongh-123614: Add save function to turtle.py
pythongh-123614: Add save function to turtle.py
pythongh-123614: Add save function to turtle.py
pythongh-123614: Add save function to turtle.py
pythongh-123614: Add docstring
rruuaanng commentedon Sep 4, 2024
hugovk commentedon Sep 4, 2024
rruuaanng commentedon Sep 4, 2024
pythongh-123614: Add docs and change exception type
pythongh-123614: Escape backslashes in Windows paths
pythongh-123614: Escape backslashes in Windows paths
gh-123614: Add save function to turtle.py (#123617)