Using python turtle to draw a polygon with n number of sides

Question

I am new to python with turtle and would appreciate some help. I am trying to create a program that takes an input for a number of sides then draws a regular polygon with that number of sides. However, it either produces a TimeLimitError or it simply draws a straight line.

Here is what I have:

sides = int(input("How many sides would you like? "))
angle = sides / 360

import turtle
for count in range(sides):
  turtle.fd(50)
  turtle.lt(angle)

But this is what it keeps producing:

How many sides would you like?  5
TimeLimitError: Program exceeded run time limit. on line 1

Solution

you should divide 360 by number of sides not the other way around.

angle = 360 / sides

Comments

[Payman]

sides/360? shouldn't that be 360/sides?

[lenawb]

Thank you, that would explain the straight line. I think I was getting more confused with TimeLimitError and as a result didn't spot the obvious mistake.