Question

Digit 9

You are given

N as input. Write a program to print the pattern of 2*N - 1 rows using an asterisk(*) as shown below.Note: There is a space after each asterisk * character.Input

The first line of input is an integer

N.Explanation

In the given example,

sample input is 4

the output should be like this...

* * * *
*     *
*     *
* * * *
      *
      *
* * * *

Answer 1

Source code

N = int(input())
f_line = '*' * N
f_line = ' '.join(f_line)
n = f_line


for i in range(N - 2):
 n += '\n' + '*' + (' ' * (2*N - 3)) + '*'
n += '\n' + f_line
for i in range(N - 2):
 n += '\n' + (' ' * (2*N - 2)) + '*'
n += '\n' + f_line
print(n)

Output