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pythonturtle-graphics
OGEMDI PaPi
OGEMDI PaPi

Reputation: 1

TypeError: start must be a integer

I am trying to draw five turtles, but I am getting a TypeError on line 25. Here is my code:

import turtle

wn = turtle.Screen() 
redrose = turtle.Turtle()

color = input("What will your background color be?")
fillcolor_f = input("What will the color of your rose be?")

redrose.hideturtle()
redrose.speed(30)

redrose.penup()
redrose.left(180)
redrose.forward(175)
redrose.right(90)
redrose.forward(30)
redrose.right(90)
redrose.pendown()

def drawRose(red): 
    redrose.color("pink")
    redrose.fillcolor(fillcolor_f)
    redrose.fill(True)

    for i in range(red):
        redrose.forward(i)
        redrose.right(49)
    for i in range(5):
        drawRose(redrose)
        redrose.penup()
        redrose.forward(350)
        redrose.right(144)
        redrose.pendown()

    redrose.fill(False)


drawRose(50)
wn.bgcolor(color)

I am trying to draw five roses, but it produces errors. I am doing this in interactivepython.org.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4314

Answers (1)

Aaron D
Aaron D

Reputation: 5886

You are recursively calling drawRose with the wrong parameter. On the line 23 (for i in range(red):) you expect red to be an integer, which is it, when first called on line 36 (drawRose(50)). But then on line 27 (drawRose(redrose)) you are passing in the redrose object, which is a turtle. It is not clear to me exactly what you should pass in there. I doubt that you even want to call it recursively. I suspect you actually want another function like drawPetal.

Upvotes: 2

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