I am using the turtle module in python and I want to obtain a numeric representation (RGB, Hex, etc.) of the color instead of the name as a string.
from turtle import Screen
print(Screen().bgcolor())
The example above prints >>> white and I need to get a value like >>> #FFFFFF or >>> rbg(255, 255, 255) instead.
I am looking for creating complementary colors for arbitrary values so the color name is not useful enough.
This is a situation where we need to poke under the hood and access tkinter upon which turtle sits:
from turtle import Screen
screen = Screen()
canvas = screen.getcanvas()
root = canvas.winfo_toplevel()
r, g, b = root.winfo_rgb(screen.bgcolor())
print(r, g, b)
OUTPUT
% python3 test.py
65535 65535 65535
%
To pass these values back into turtle, we'll either need to (floating point) divide them by 65535 if we're using the default turtle color model, or shift them by 8 bits for the alternative colormode(255).
