Program Frameworks

The modules described in this chapter are frameworks that will largely dictate the structure of your program. Currently the modules described here are all oriented toward writing command-line interfaces.

The full list of modules described in this chapter is:

• turtle — Turtle graphics
  • Introduction
  • Tutorial
    • Starting a turtle environment
    • Basic drawing
      • Pen control
      • The turtle’s position
    • Making algorithmic patterns
  • How to…
    • Get started as quickly as possible
    • Use the turtle module namespace
    • Use turtle graphics in a script
    • Use object-oriented turtle graphics
  • Turtle graphics reference
    • Turtle methods
    • Methods of TurtleScreen/Screen
  • Methods of RawTurtle/Turtle and corresponding functions
    • Turtle motion
      • forward()
      • fd()
      • back()
      • bk()
      • backward()
      • right()
      • rt()
      • left()
      • lt()
      • goto()
      • setpos()
      • setposition()
      • teleport()
      • setx()
      • sety()
      • setheading()
      • seth()
      • home()
      • circle()
      • dot()
      • stamp()
      • clearstamp()
      • clearstamps()
      • undo()
      • speed()
    • Tell Turtle’s state
      • position()
      • pos()
      • towards()
      • xcor()
      • ycor()
      • heading()
      • distance()
    • Settings for measurement
      • degrees()
      • radians()
    • Pen control
      • Drawing state
        • pendown()
        • pd()
        • down()
        • penup()
        • pu()
        • up()
        • pensize()
        • width()
        • pen()
        • isdown()
      • Color control
        • pencolor()
        • fillcolor()
        • color()
      • Filling
        • filling()
        • begin_fill()
        • end_fill()
      • More drawing control
        • reset()
        • clear()
        • write()
    • Turtle state
      • Visibility
        • hideturtle()
        • ht()
        • showturtle()
        • st()
        • isvisible()
      • Appearance
        • shape()
        • resizemode()
        • shapesize()
        • turtlesize()
        • shearfactor()
        • tilt()
        • settiltangle()
        • tiltangle()
        • shapetransform()
        • get_shapepoly()
    • Using events
      • onrelease()
      • ondrag()
    • Special Turtle methods
      • begin_poly()
      • end_poly()
      • get_poly()
      • clone()
      • getturtle()
      • getpen()
      • getscreen()
      • setundobuffer()
      • undobufferentries()
    • Compound shapes
  • Methods of TurtleScreen/Screen and corresponding functions
    • Window control
      • bgcolor()
      • bgpic()
      • clearscreen()
      • resetscreen()
      • screensize()
      • setworldcoordinates()
    • Animation control
      • delay()
      • tracer()
      • update()
    • Using screen events
      • listen()
      • onkey()
      • onkeyrelease()
      • onkeypress()
      • onclick()
      • onscreenclick()
      • ontimer()
      • mainloop()
      • done()
    • Input methods
      • textinput()
      • numinput()
    • Settings and special methods
      • mode()
      • colormode()
      • getcanvas()
      • getshapes()
      • register_shape()
      • addshape()
      • turtles()
      • window_height()
      • window_width()
    • Methods specific to Screen, not inherited from TurtleScreen
      • bye()
      • exitonclick()
      • setup()
      • title()
  • Public classes
    • RawTurtle
    • RawPen
    • Turtle
    • TurtleScreen
    • Screen
    • ScrolledCanvas
    • Shape
      • addcomponent()
    • Vec2D
  • Explanation
  • Help and configuration
    • How to use help
    • Translation of docstrings into different languages
      • write_docstringdict()
    • How to configure Screen and Turtles
  • turtledemo — Demo scripts
  • Changes since Python 2.6
  • Changes since Python 3.0
• cmd — Support for line-oriented command interpreters
  • Cmd
  • Cmd Objects
    • cmdloop()
    • do_help()
    • onecmd()
    • emptyline()
    • default()
    • completedefault()
    • columnize()
    • precmd()
    • postcmd()
    • preloop()
    • postloop()
    • prompt
    • identchars
    • lastcmd
    • cmdqueue
    • intro
    • doc_header
    • misc_header
    • undoc_header
    • ruler
    • use_rawinput
  • Cmd Example
• shlex — Simple lexical analysis
  • split()
  • join()
  • quote()
  • shlex
  • shlex Objects
    • get_token()
    • push_token()
    • read_token()
    • sourcehook()
    • push_source()
    • pop_source()
    • error_leader()
    • commenters
    • wordchars
    • whitespace
    • escape
    • quotes
    • escapedquotes
    • whitespace_split
    • infile
    • instream
    • source
    • debug
    • lineno
    • token
    • eof
    • punctuation_chars
  • Parsing Rules
  • Improved Compatibility with Shells