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  1. def printSingle(number, letter, spacer):
  2.     print "%s%c" % (spacer*(number-1), letter)
  3.  
  4. def printDouble(number, index, letter, spacer):
  5.     secondSpace = spacer*(index*2)
  6.     secondSpace = secondSpace[:-1]
  7.     print "%s%c%s%c" % (spacer*(number-index-1), chr(ord(letter)+index), secondSpace, chr(ord(letter)+index))
  8.  
  9. def diamond(number, letter, spacing):
  10.     """Takes 3 inputs, the 'number' of letters to print, starting at 'letter', and the number of 'spaces' between each."""
  11.     spacer = ' ' * spacing
  12.     set = range(1, number) + range(number-2, 0, -1)
  13.     printSingle(number, letter, spacer)
  14.     for idx in set:
  15.         printDouble(number, idx, letter, spacer)
  16.     printSingle(number, letter, spacer)
  17.  
  18. if __name__ == "__main__":
  19.     diamond(5, "a", 5)
  20.     diamond(4, "b", 4)
  21.     diamond(6, "d", 3)
  22.     diamond(8, "t", 4)
  23.  
Runtime error #stdin #stdout 0.02s 5852KB
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language:
Python 3 (python  3.12)
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14 years ago
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