I have been trying to create and export an image with python turtle graphics, and I am using turtle.getscreen().getcanvas().postscript(name="foo.esp") to export it (found here). When I call turtle.getscreen(), then the turtle shows up on the screen, and doesn't hide, even when I call the turtle's hideturtle() method.
I tried to delete the turtle using del, but the turtle stayed on screen. I tried calling the turtle's reset method, but that cleared everything it drew. I tried moving it off the screen, but upon calling turtle.getscreen(), it just moved back to the center of the screen.
Here is an example of this:
import turtle
t = turtle.Turtle()
t.fillcolor("red")
t.begin_fill()
t.circle(100)
t.end_fill()
t.getscreen().getcanvas().postscript(file="output.eps")
I figured out how to get the image, but it was kind of complicated. After exporting the image as a .eps file, I opened the file with an editor. Since a .eps file is not binary, I was able to remove the part that draws the turtle, which is located at the bottom of the .eps file, above "grestore" and below "x y z setrgbcolor AdjustColor", where x, y and z are all floats with 3 digits of precision.
1.000 0.298 0.051 setrgbcolor AdjustColor
stroke ┐
grestore │
gsave │
grestore │
gsave │
grestore │
gsave │
grestore │
gsave │
0 169 moveto │
-9 174 lineto │
-7 169 lineto ├── Delete this part
-9 164 lineto │
0 169 lineto │
0.000 0.000 0.000 setrgbcolor AdjustColor │
eofill │
0 169 moveto │
-9 174 lineto │
-7 169 lineto │
-9 164 lineto │
0 169 lineto │
1 setlinejoin 1 setlinecap │
1 setlinewidth │
[] 0 setdash │
0.000 0.000 0.000 setrgbcolor AdjustColor ┘
stroke
grestore
restore showpage
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