Wand polyline() function in Python

polyline() is another drawing function present in wand.drawing module of Wand. polyline() is similar to polygon() function the only difference is that, it will not close the stroke line b/w first and last point. Similar to polygon() it also takes a list of point tuples as an argument.

Syntax :

wand.drawing.polyline(points)

Parameters :

Parameter	Input Type	Description
points	list	list of x, y tuples.

Example #1

Python3

from wand.image import Image
from wand.drawing import Drawing
from wand.color import Color

with Drawing() as draw:
    draw.stroke_width = 2
    draw.stroke_color = Color('black')
    draw.fill_color = Color('white')

    # points list for polygon
    points = [(25, 25), (175, 100), (25, 175)]

    # draw polyline using polyline() function
    draw.polyline(points)
    with Image(width = 200, height = 200, background = Color('lightgreen')) as image:
        draw(image)
        image.save(filename = "polyline.png")

Output:

Example #2:

Python3

from wand.image import Image
from wand.drawing import Drawing
from wand.color import Color

with Drawing() as draw:
    draw.stroke_width = 2
    draw.stroke_color = Color('black')
    draw.fill_color = Color('white')

    # points list for polygon
    points = [(25, 150), (50, 50), (150, 50), (175, 150)]

    # draw polygon using polygon() function
    draw.polyline(points)
    with Image(width = 200, height = 200, background = Color('lightgreen')) as image:
        draw(image)
        image.save(filename = "polyline2.png")

Output: