Turtle drawing backwards

Question

This is easily the dumbest question I have ever had to ask, but I'm trying to use Turtle to code something that will take English inputs and draw letters in an alphabet I created for a D&D campaign. I'm trying to draw a letter like this:

Letter I'm trying to draw. Similar to a candy cane?

The code I have currently is this:

turtle.pendown()
turtle.seth(270)
turtle.forward(50)
turtle.back(50)
turtle.seth(90)
turtle.circle(25,150)

But the problem is that the result draws what I want backwards. I tried changing the heading to everything I can think of, but nothing makes the shape I want. What am I missing?

Answer 1

To arc in a clockwise direction, you can set the radius to be negative

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turtle.circle(-25,150)

Answer 2

turtle.circle(radius, extent) draws in a counterclockwise direction for positive values of radius.

use negative numbers to draw clockwise.

see the turtle documentation for more https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html#turtle.circle

Answer 3

Since you were already heading down, you could stay in that orientation and draw the arc backward (negative extent):

turtle.pendown()
turtle.seth(270)
turtle.forward(50)
turtle.back(50)
# turtle.seth(90)        <-- don't change direction
turtle.circle(25,-150) # <-- draw arc backward