Drawing a hollow asterisk square

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to turn my whole square into a hollow one. The few things I\'ve tried so far haven\'t been very successful as I end up getting present

Answer 1

Here is my python code for drawing a square by entered size N.

n = int(input())
print('*' * n)
for i in range(n-2):
    print ('*' + ' ' * (n-2) + '*')
print('*' * n)

Basically the first and the last print('*' * n) are drawing the top and the bottom lines and the for cycle prints the body.

Output example: N=3

***
* *
***

Output example: N=5

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