print a * pyramid

[drogers10940]

Hello everyone,

So I need to write a code using nested loops to draw a pyramid in the following pattern:
* 1
***** 5
********* 9
************* 13
**************** 17

So each row needs to have 4 more * then the rest. So Far I have come up with the following code:
def triangle(n):

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# number of spaces     k = 2*n - 1        # outer loop to handle number of rows     for i in range(0, n):                # inner loop to handle number spaces         # values changing acc. to requirement         for j in range(0, k):             print(end=" ")                # decrementing k after each loop         k = k -1                # inner loop to handle number of columns         # values changing acc. to outer loop         for j in range(0, i+1):                        # printing stars             print("* ", end="")                # ending line after each row         print("\r")    # Driver Code n = 5 triangle(n)

This gives me an output of

Output:
     *
    * *
   * * *
  * * * *
 * * * * *

When I change details within the code I cant get it to match what it should. This is just the base I am using from a different assignment. Can someone point me in the right direction?

[sparkz_alot]

When I change details within the code I cant get it to match what it should.

What are you changing?

[drogers10940]

I have been trying to tweak the inner loop to handle the number of columns per row. When I change it to

1 2	for j in range(0, i+3):

I get the output of:

Output:
         * * * 

        * * * * 

       * * * * * 

      * * * * * * 

     * * * * * * * 

do I need another statement to account for the addition of the extra * per line? I understand the concept of nested loops. But its these questions regarding shapes that really throw me off as I have a lot of trouble conceptualizing some type of formula/equation for them.

also, there was an error in copying what it should look like in the original post, it should look as follows:

Output:
              *
            *****
          *********
        *************
      *****************

[drogers10940]

After a lot of head scratching and whiskey I figured it out. I needed to add a y statement in there to account for my increase in *. Your question made me realize it sparks_alot. Thank you. I got it to work with this ( I added lots of notes to walk me through the steps) :

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n = 5 triangle(n)   def triangle2(n):     x = 8     y = 1     ## outer loop changes the row     for i in range(n):         for j in range(x):             ## how many times to repeat the following statement is changing             ## row1: 8 times, row2: 6 times, row3: 4 times, row4: 2 times, row5: 0 times             ## range(x) x changes as 8 --> 6 --> 4 --> 2 --> 0 so we use statement x = x - 2             ## initially x = 8             print(" ", end="")         for k in range(y):             ## how many times to repeat the following statement is changing             ## row1: 1 time, row2: 5 times, row3: 9 times, row4: 13 times, row5: 17 times             ## range(y) y changes as 1 --> 5 --> 9 --> 13 --> 17 so we use statement y = y + 4             ## initially y = 1             print("*", end = "")         x = x - 2         y = y + 4         print()    triangle2(5)

Output:
        *
      *****
    *********
  *************
*****************

[gruntfutuk]

You might want to type print('*' * 10) into the console.

[prothej227]

Here's my way of solving the problem. Since unlike C, printing str/int is directly concatenated after the loop, while in Python, the string is printed in newline. To solve this, i just created an output string "star" and then appended all the necessary data created by the loop.

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row = int(input("Input the number of rows of your pyramid: ")) j = int() k = int() s = int() star = str() for j in range(1, row + 1):     for s in range(row - j,0, -1):         star += str(" ")     for k in range(0, 2*j - 1):         star +=str("*")     star += str("\n") print(star)