#TIL: Turtle

I'm working on a project at work for entity mapping; using semantic triples to describe a knowledge graph of a client's content ecosystem. It's mostly a boring spreadsheet so I was wanting to visualise it as Nodes and Edges so it's easier to understand for less technical people. In my quest to find some off-the-shelf software that can turn an Excel file into a picture deterministically, I discovered Turtle, a Python library for drawing diagrams using path descriptions in (mostly) human-readable steps: A Simple Square import turtleSIDE = 15 # length of each side in pixelsturtle.fillcolor('yellow') # Set the fill colorturtle.begin_fill() # Start recording the shape to fillturtle.forward(SIDE) # Move forwardturtle.right(90) # Turn 90° clockwiseturtle.forward(SIDE)turtle.right(90)turtle.forward(SIDE)turtle.right(90)turtle.forward(SIDE)turtle.right(90) # Final turn returns the turtle to its starting directionturtle.end_fill() # Fill the shape with yellowturtle.done() # Keep the window open…

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