How to write a single program in python to print different triangles

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Asterisk pyramids or triangles
Jun 7, 2019 in Python by anonymous
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4 answers to this question.

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Best answer

If you want to use the same script to print different patterns when running at different times, what you can do is write functions to print different patterns and then randomly call these functions. Refer to the example below:

import random

def pattern1():
    n = 5
    k = 2*n - 2
    for i in range(0, n): 
        for j in range(0, k): 
            print(end=" ") 
            k = k - 1
            for j in range(0, i+1):
                print("* ", end="")
            print("\r")

def pattern2():
    n = 3
    k = 2*n - 2
    for i in range(0, n): 
        for j in range(0, k): 
            print(end=" ") 
            k = k - 1
            for j in range(0, i+1):
                print("* ", end="")
            print("\r")
def pattern3():
    n = 7
    k = 2*n - 2
    for i in range(0, n): 
        for j in range(0, k): 
            print(end=" ") 
            k = k - 1
            for j in range(0, i+1):
                print("* ", end="")
            print("\r")

which=random.randint(1,3)

if which==1:
    pattern1()
elif which==2:
    pattern2()
else: 
    pattern3()
answered Jun 11, 2019 by Likhith

selected Jun 11, 2019 by Omkar
+1 vote

Hi, you can use following code snippet to print '*' asterisk triangle pattern in python:

# number of spaces k

# number of rows n = 5

k = 2*n - 2

# outer loop to handle number of rows 

for i in range(0, n): 

        # inner loop to handle number spaces 

        # values changing acc. to requirement 

        for j in range(0, k): 

            print(end=" ") 

        # decrementing k after each loop 

        k = k - 1

        # inner loop to handle number of columns 

        # values changing acc. to outer loop 

        for j in range(0, i+1):

            # printing stars 

            print("* ", end="")

        # ending line after each row 

        print("\r")
answered Jun 9, 2019 by Abha
• 28,140 points
+1 vote

use nested if in response to a prompt eg

a=print("Enter 1 for pyramid or 2 for triangle")
if(a=1)
{
#enter commands for pyramid triangle
}
elif(a=2)
{
#enter commands for right angle triangle
}
answered Jun 10, 2019 by brianni

Hi Brianni, you have a nice approach to print different patterns based on user input, but to store the user-input, you can't use print statement. It will simply print the statement for you, but wont store the keyboard input from user. To store keyboard input into a variable, either use raw_input() or input() methods. For eg.

a = input("What is your age? ") 
Or
a = raw_input("What is your name?")
+1 vote

Here is a program to print an '*' pyramid

def pyfunc(r):
    for x in range(r):
        print(' '*(r-x-1)+'*'*(2*x+1))    #single whitespace present in the print statement string
pyfunc(4) 

output:

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

In case you want to print triangles, to the same program you can just, in place of 1 whitespace character, insert another whitespace character or remove the present one to null string as shown below:

def pyfunc(r):
    for x in range(r):
        print('  '*(r-x-1)+'*'*(2*x+1))
pyfunc(4)

output:

      *
    ***
  *****
*******
def pyfunc(r):
    for x in range(r):
        print(''*(r-x-1)+'*'*(2*x+1))
pyfunc(4)

output:

*
***
*****
*******
answered Jun 11, 2019 by Nisa
• 1,090 points

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