turtle.shape() 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.shape()

This function is used to set the turtle shape to shape with a given name or, if the name is not given, return the name of the current shape.

Syntax:

turtle.shape(name=None)

Shape with name must exist in the Turtle Screen’s shape dictionary. Initially, there are the following polygon shapes: “arrow”, “turtle”, “circle”, “square”, “triangle”, “classic”.  These images are shown below.

default : ‘classic’

‘arrow’

‘turtle’

‘circle’

‘square’

‘triangle’

Example:

Python3

# import package
import turtle


# for default shape
turtle.forward(100)

# for circle shape
turtle.shape("circle")
turtle.right(60)
turtle.forward(100)

# for triangle shape
turtle.shape("triangle")
turtle.right(60)
turtle.forward(100)

# for square shape
turtle.shape("square")
turtle.right(60)
turtle.forward(100)

# for arrow shape
turtle.shape("arrow")
turtle.right(60)
turtle.forward(100)

# for turtle shape
turtle.shape("turtle")
turtle.right(60)
turtle.forward(100)

Output: