I'm trying to create a pyramid that looks like the picture below(numberPyramid(6)), where the pyramid isn't made of numbers but actually a black space with the numbers around it. The function takes in a parameter called "num" and which is the number of rows in the pyramid. How would I go about doing this? I need to use a for loop but I'm not sure how I implement it. Thanks!
666666666666
55555 55555
4444 4444
333 333
22 22
1 1
解决方案
First the code:
max_depth = int(raw_input("Enter max depth of pyramid (2 - 9): "))
for i in range(max_depth, 0, -1):
print str(i)*i + " "*((max_depth-i)*2) + str(i)*i
Output:
(numpyramid)macbook:numpyramid joeyoung$ python numpyramid.py
Enter max depth of pyramid (2 - 9): 6
666666666666
55555 55555
4444 4444
333 333
22 22
1 1
How this works:
Python has a built-in function named range() which can help you build the iterator for your for-loop. You can make it decrement instead of increment by passing in -1 as the 3rd argument.
Our for loop will start at the user supplied max_depth (6 for our example) and i will decrement by 1 for each iteration of the loop.
Now the output line should do the following:
Print out the current iterator number (i) and repeat it itimes.
Figure out how much white space to add in the middle.
This will be the max_depth minus the current iterator number, then multiply that result by 2 because you'll need to double the whitespace for each iteration
Attach the whitespace to the first set of repeated numbers.
Attach a second set of repeated numbers: the current iterator number (i) repeated itimes
When your print characters, they can be repeated by following the character with an asterisk * and the number of times you want the character to be repeated.
For example:
>>> # Repeats the character 'A' 5 times
... print "A"*5
AAAAA