turtle.heading() 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.heading()

This function is used to return the turtle’s current heading. It doesn’t require any argument.

Syntax :

turtle.heading()

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

Example 1 :

Python3

# import package
import turtle

# default heading value
print(turtle.heading())

Output :

0.0

Example 2 :

Python3

# import package
import turtle

# set turtle speed
# for better understandings
turtle.speed(1)

# loop for pattern
for i in range(4):
    turtle.forward(100)

    # get heading value
    val = turtle.heading()

    # write it
    turtle.write(str(val))
    turtle.backward(100)
    turtle.left(90)

Output :