turtle.getpen() function in Python

The turtle module provides turtle graphics primitives, in both object-oriented and procedure-oriented ways. Because it uses Tkinter for the underlying graphics, it needs a version of Python installed with Tk support.

turtle.getpen()

This function is used to return the Turtleobject itself. It doesn’t require any argument.

Syntax :

turtle.getpen()

Below is the implementation of the above method with some examples :

Example 1 :

Python3

# import package
import turtle


# get turtle object
# and store it
turt=turtle.getpen()

# print turtle object
print(turt)

Output :

<__main__.Turtle object>

Example 2 :

Python3

# import package
import turtle


# get turtle object
# and store it
turt=turtle.getpen()

# use it for turtle methods
turt.width(5)
turt.color("blue")
turt.shape("turtle")
turt.forward(150)

Output :