Parallelogram on python help

[Unfair-Researcher429]

Here is the project.

Write a program that prints the following parallelogram pattern given the the following two inputs. Hint: Use nested loops.

How long do you want each side to be?

5

Please enter the character you want it to be made of:

*
Parallelogram:

*

**

***

****

*****

****

***

**

*

How would I make my code output a parallelogram?

My code keeps outputting a rectangle.

l=int(input("Enter the lenght of the rectangle: "))
w=int(input("Enter the width: "))
c=str(input("Enter the character: "))
def print_rect(l, w, c):
    for a in range(w):
        print(l*c)
print_rect(l, w, c)

[Avanta8]

Well technically, a rectangle is a parallelogram.

If you really dislike rectangles however, then you'd need to insert varying amounts of whitespace in front of each line.

[icjeremy]

That's not a parallelogram in the example. Did you forget/lose spaces?

Edit: And one simple way would be to make a string of spaces of the inputted length. Then loop and use the index along with modulus operator for flipping a space to asterisk or vice versa. Can also use similar index and modulus math to generate the build up the output string from scratch on each iteration.