Draw an M-shaped pattern with nested loops

Question

I just started Python 2.7 very recently, but I\'m stuck at this a problem:

Make a program that prints an \"M\" pattern of asterisks. The user shall in

Answer 1

The dumbest approach is to print an increasing number of stars justified left and right until their number reaches N//2 (floor division), the rest is easy.

for n in range(1,N//2+1):
    line = bytearray(' ' * N)
    line[:n] = line[-n:] = '*' * n
    print line

Ha, with this, you can even loop all the way to N instead of N//2 - since assigning to intersecting ranges will do no harm.