Printing Simple Diamond Pattern in Python

Question

I would like to print the following pattern in Python 3.5 (I\'m new to coding):

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


        

Answer 1

#maybe it could help  

height = eval ( input ( 'How high? ' ) )
height = int (height//2)

for i in range(1, height+1):
    print(' ' *(height-i+1), '*'*i + '*' * (i-1) )

for i in range (height+1, 0, -1):
    print (' ' * (height+1-i), '*' * i + '*' * (i-1))