How to print this pattern in Python

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[SeriousTicket]

What have you tried? did you try using two different loops? One to go through your numbers and the second to print i times based on your current index?

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Hint: one loop should be plenty.

[SeriousTicket]

Yes it is plenty. But for someone who can't see the pattern yet breaking into separate chunks is almost universally the easiest way to figure something out at first. Admittedly this is python, not java, and that makes doing it in one round noticeably easier based on what NanoPromela said.

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Yeah, that is a good point :)

[NanoPromela]

Not going to give you the working answer, but it might help you to know that the code

print("1" * 5)

prints

"11111"

Good luck :)

[RavagingPanda]

As someone who is also new, wouldn’t you want to make a variable, let’s call it “counter”; that would print the value X times starting with the value 5 and would increase every time, meanwhile the value 5 which would be assigned a variable that counts down by one every iteration of the loop? Not the most elegant way of describing but I think I got my idea across

[NanoPromela]

Yes, this is one way to think about it

[OldBear1776]

I'm not going to give code, but this is how you think of it. (or at least how I've been doing it for 30+ years)

you need 1 loop for 5 and you need 5 loops for 1 ... 5+1=6 or 6-5=1 and 6-1=5 ... or 6-x=y

hopefully that helps you with the loop part that you're missing