turtle.towards() 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.towards()

This function is used to return the angle, between the line from turtle-position to the position specified by x, y, and the turtle’s start orientation.

Syntax :

turtle.towards(x, y=None)

Parameters:

Arguments	Description
x	a number   or   a pair/vector of numbers   or    a turtle instance
y	a number   or   None                                  or     None

Below is the implementation of the above method with an example :

Python3

# import package
import turtle

# go towards east
ang=turtle.towards(100,0)

# print angle
print(ang)

# go towards north
ang=turtle.towards(0,100)

# print angle
print(ang)

# go towards west
ang=turtle.towards(-100,0)

# print angle
print(ang)

# go towards south
ang=turtle.towards(0,-100)

# print angle
print(ang)

Output :

0.0
90.0
180.0
270.0

Here we can see that one can easily get an angle towards any coordinate point without going to that point. In the above example turtle remain on (0,0) i.e. home and get all angles to the specified position without any movement.