TextTurtle is a Turtle that can draw text!
Compatible with the Turtle methods that you may be familiar with (it is a subclass of Turtle), but with the additional talent of drawing text.
simple use case:
from textturtle import TextTurtle
t = TextTurtle()
t.text("hello")
The TextTurtle alphabet is uppercase ASCII, plus a space character. Sorry, no punctuation for emiticons :(
You can use the standard Turtle method write() if you want other characters (but then you can't watch the Turtle draw it)
(and I am sure that you are clever enough to add characters with your Turtle!)