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Alphabet Rangoli

  • roger_eppich
     + 29 comments

    I won't lie, it took me over a week thinking about it, trying different things. Finally I came up with a good and clear solution. I am not sure if there is a more efficient way than this, comments always welcome.

    def print_rangoli(size):
    myStr = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'[0:size]
    
    for i in range(size-1, -size, -1):
        x = abs(i)
        if x >= 0:
            line = myStr[size:x:-1]+myStr[x:size]
            print ("--"*x+ '-'.join(line)+"--"*x)