🔒 csc for loops assignment

[untold mirage]

@mellow ginkgo

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[mellow ginkgo]

https://paste.pythondiscord.com/OU7A

[dusky stump]

is this cmu academy

[mellow ginkgo]

its prairelearn

[dusky stump]

nvm lmao

[silent aurora]

Do you have anything in particular that you need help on?

[mellow ginkgo]

yeah im just having trouble figuring out how to code the pattern

i have the bottom and enclosed ascii stuff

but the inside is super wonky and when i call the function gives me a weird amount characters in the middle

i just dont know whar order of operations to do in order to fix it

[silent aurora]

And you have to use for loops for this?

That's kind of annoying cause I don't think you need them lol

[mellow ginkgo]

yeah they want loops specifically lol

[silent aurora]

Something that might help is not worrying about creating two separate variables for the first two lines and just print out the same line twice.

Secondly I don't think you need to loop over AND multiply the string, just use one or the other and since you need to use for loops, just use the for loop to keep extending the string.

Maybe coming up with slightly more meaningful names might also help, like start_end and middle and then sticking to them. You don't need to set
inner1 = charB
inner2 = charB
If we can just use the same things over and over again

[mellow ginkgo]

okay

[silent aurora]

I mean, if I was doing this I would even break this down into two separate functions that a third function calls, one that prints the first patten that you call twice and another function that prints the second kind of pattern.

!e

def print_instrument_unit(instrument: int) -> None:
    if instrument < 0:
        raise ValueError("Instrument must be a non-negative integer")

    start_end = "||"
    middle = "~#"

    first_pattern = ""

    first_pattern += start_end
    for _ in range(instrument * 2 + 1):
        first_pattern += middle
    first_pattern += start_end

    print(first_pattern)
    print(first_pattern)

    second_pattern = ""

    second_pattern += "+"
    for _ in range(instrument + 1):
        second_pattern += "=*=*"
    second_pattern += "+"

    print(second_pattern)


print_instrument_unit(4)

print_instrument_unit(3)

print_instrument_unit(2)

print_instrument_unit(1)

print_instrument_unit(0)

[untold mirage]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

001 | ||~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#||
002 | ||~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#||
003 | +=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*+
004 | ||~#~#~#~#~#~#~#||
005 | ||~#~#~#~#~#~#~#||
006 | +=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*+
007 | ||~#~#~#~#~#||
008 | ||~#~#~#~#~#||
009 | +=*=*=*=*=*=*+
010 | ||~#~#~#||
... (truncated - too many lines)

Full output: https://paste.pythondiscord.com/5QWCIJMHVL7ITFBTVMETLUNX5E

[mellow ginkgo]

okay thanks so much!

[untold mirage]

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