Slow turtle

[Brent W. Hughes]

I'm using the turtle graphics module and am trying to teach it to my kids.
The slowness of the turtle in drawing things is good at first because it's
fun watching it do its thing. But now we'd like it to go faster so it
doesn't take to long to see what it is producing. Is there a standard way to
speed it up, or am I left with sifting through the source code to fix it
myself?

Brent

 

[Peter Otten]

I'm using the turtle graphics module and am trying to teach it to my kids.
The slowness of the turtle in drawing things is good at first because it's
fun watching it do its thing. But now we'd like it to go faster so it
doesn't take to long to see what it is producing. Is there a standard way
to speed it up, or am I left with sifting through the source code to fix
it myself?

If you are only interested in the final picture, you can use tracer(False).
Otherwise reducing the delay or dividing nhops by a fixed number seem most
promising. E. g.

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< nhops = int(distance)
---

nhops = int(distance)/5

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< self._canvas.after(10)
---

self._canvas.after(1)

Peter