Programming Riddles

[NaMaan]

Re: Programming Riddles

Great Joel . I never really worked with python so can you please explain the logic you are using . Thanks .

@JoelKhan

Here is something in python:

lines = "".join(("*" * y, " " * (w - (y * 2)), "*" * y)) for y in xrange(w / 2, 0, -1)]
print "
".join(lines + lines-2::-1])

********************
*********  *********
********    ********
*******      *******
******        ******
*****          *****
****            ****
***              ***
**                **
*                  *
**                **
***              ***
****            ****
*****          *****
******        ******
*******      *******
********    ********
*********  *********
********************