Hello everyone! Welcome back to programminginpython.com. I am continuing with this pattern programming series, here I will tell you how to print the pattern of the letter K. In the previous tutorials, I have shown you the patterns of letters A to JI. Here it’s now time for Pattern K. You can check the complete series on letter patterns here.
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Print Pattern K – Code Visualization
Task:
Python program to print the pattern of letter K
Approach:
- Read an input integer for asking the size of the letter using
input()
- Check if the entered number is greater than 8,
- if yes, call the function
print_pattern()
- else, show a message to enter a number which is greater or equal to 8
- if yes, call the function
- print_pattern()
- here we only do two things, print star(
*
) and print space(*
‘s and - following are 3 conditions for printing *’s
We have 2 loops, an outer loop() for rows, and an inner loop for columns.-
# Outer for loop for row in range(n): # Inner for loop for column in range(n):
Print first column
column == 0
Print bottom slanting line
rows == (columns+(n//3)
Print top slanting line
... i = 0 j = n//2 ... rows == i and columns == j
-
- print
- here we only do two things, print star(
Program:
__author__ = 'Avinash' # Python3 program to print alphabet pattern K # * * # * * # * * # * * # * * # * * # * * # * * # * * # * * # * * # * * def print_pattern(n): i = 0 j = n//2 # Outer for loop for number of rows for rows in range(n): # Inner for loop columns for columns in range(n): # prints first and last column if columns == 0 or (rows == (columns+(n//3)) and columns > 0): print("*", end=" ") elif rows == i and columns == j: print("*", end=" ") i = i+1 j = j-1 else: print(" ", end=" ") print() size = int(input("Enter size: \t")) if size < 8: print("Enter a size greater than 8") else: print_pattern(size)
Output: