turtle.Turtle.pencolor¶

Turtle.pencolor(*args)¶

Return or set the pencolor.

Arguments: Four input formats are allowed:

• pencolor() Return the current pencolor as color specification string, possibly in hex-number format (see example). May be used as input to another color/pencolor/fillcolor call.
• pencolor(colorstring) s is a Tk color specification string, such as “red” or “yellow”
• pencolor((r, g, b)) a tuple of r, g, and b, which represent, an RGB color, and each of r, g, and b are in the range 0..colormode, where colormode is either 1.0 or 255
• pencolor(r, g, b) r, g, and b represent an RGB color, and each of r, g, and b are in the range 0..colormode

If turtleshape is a polygon, the outline of that polygon is drawn with the newly set pencolor.

Example (for a Turtle instance named turtle): >>> turtle.pencolor(‘brown’) >>> tup = (0.2, 0.8, 0.55) >>> turtle.pencolor(tup) >>> turtle.pencolor() ‘#33cc8c’