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Alphabet Rangoli

  • fuzzeh
     + 10 comments

    I changed the code a bit so the width is simply the length of the center line. (Kudos to Boki for the original though - especially the appending line!)

    So e-d-c-b-a-b-c-d-e would make the width 17.

    Hopefully this helps some people with this question.

    import string
alpha = string.ascii_lowercase

n = int(input())
L = []

for i in range(n):
    s = "-".join(alpha[i:n])
    L.append(s[::-1]+s[1:])

width = len(L[0])

for i in range(n-1, 0, -1):
    print(L[i].center(width, "-"))

for i in range(n):
    print(L[i].center(width, "-"))