turtle.circle() method in Python

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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.circle() :

This method is used to draw a circle with a given radius.

Syntax: turtle.circle(radius, extent=None, steps=None)

Parameters:

radius: Radius of the circle.

extent: The part of the circle in degrees as an arc.

steps: Divide the shape in the equal number of given steps.

Below is the implementation of the above method with some examples :

Example 1:

Python3

# importing turtle package
import turtle
  
# draw circle of radius 
# 80 pixel
turtle.circle(80)

Output :

Example 2:

Python3

# importing turtle package
import turtle
  
# draw circle of radius 80 
# pixel and extent = 180
# so it draw half circle
turtle.circle(80, 
              extent = 180)

Output :

Example 3:

Python3

# importing turtle package
import turtle
  
# draw circle of radius 80
# pixel and steps = 5
# so it draw pentagon with
# equal length 5 sides
turtle.circle(80, 
              steps = 5)