dragging means moving the mouse while holding down one of the mouse buttons for exampleyou can move files between folders by dragging the folder iconsor you can move appointments around in calendar app pyautogui provides the pyautogui dragto(and pyautogui drag(functions to drag the mouse cursor to new location or location relative to its current one the arguments for dragto(and drag(are the same as moveto(and move()the -coordinate/horizontal movementthe -coordinate/vertical movementand an optional duration of time (macos does not drag correctly when the mouse moves too quicklyso passing duration keyword argument is recommended to try these functionsopen graphics-drawing application such as ms paint on windowspaintbrush on macosor gnu paint on linux (if you don' have drawing applicationyou can use the online one at with the mouse cursor over the drawing application' canvas and the pencil or brush tool selectedenter the following into new file editor window and save it as spiraldraw pyimport pyautoguitime time sleep( pyautogui click(click to make the window active distance change while distance pyautogui drag(distance duration= move right distance distance change pyautogui drag( distanceduration= move down pyautogui drag(-distance duration= move left distance distance change pyautogui drag( -distanceduration= move up when you run this programthere will be five-second delay for you to move the mouse cursor over the drawing program' window with the pencil or brush tool selected then spiraldraw py will take control of the mouse and click to make the drawing program' window active the active window is the window that currently accepts keyboard inputand the actions you take--like typing orin this casedragging the mouse--will affect that window the active window is also known as the focused or foreground window once the drawing program is activespiraldraw py draws square spiral pattern like the one on the left of figure - while you can also create square spiral image by using the pillow module discussed in creating the image by controlling the mouse to draw it in ms paint lets you make use of this program' various brush styleslike in figure - on the rightas well as other advanced featureslike gradients or the fill bucket you can preselect the brush settings yourself (or have your python code select these settingsand then run the spiral-drawing program controlling the keyboard and mouse with gui automation