How to generate a square pattern using stars in Python
Overview
In this shot, we will discuss how to use stars to generate a square pattern in Python.
There are tons of patterns that can be printed with Python once you have a strong grip on loops.
Here, we will use simple for loops to generate a square pattern with stars.
Description
A square is a plane figure that consists of four sides that are identical in magnitude. A square has four angles, all of which are 90 degrees.
To execute the same shape through Python programming, we will use two for loops:
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An outer loop to loop through the number of rows.
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An inner loop to print the patterns along with the columns.
Code
Let’s look at the code snippet below to understand it better.
# No of rowsn = 5# Loop through rowsfor i in range(n):# Loop to print patternfor j in range(n):print("*", end=' ')print()
Explanation
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In line 2, we take the input for the number of rows (i.e. the length of the square).
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In line 5, we create a
forloop to iterate through the number of rows. -
From lines 8 to 10, an inner nested loop runs, printing stars along the columns and thereby generating the given pattern. The end statement helps to stay on the same line.
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In line 10, the
print()statement is used to move to the next line.
In this way, we can use stars to generate a square pattern in Python.
