Question

17.18 LAB 8A: Input and formatted output: Left-facing arrow

You will be working on generating a formatted output using characters such as *, #, -, +.

You need to prompt the user for a character for the arrowhead, and a character for the arrow body, and then print a left-facing arrow. Your prompts should be exactly "Enter a character for the arrowhead:" and "Enter a character for the arrow body:", as shown below.

Ex: If the user inputs a * after the first prompt, and a # after the second prompt,

Enter a character for the arrowhead:#
Enter a character for the arrow body:*

Then the output is:

  #
 ##*****
###*****
 ##*****
  #

can you help me with writing this code in Python?

Answer 1

Code and output

Code for copying

a=str(input("Enter a character for the arrowhead:"))
b=str(input("Enter a character for the arrowbody:"))

print(" {}".format(a))
print(" {}{}".format(a*2,b*5))
print("{}{}".format(a*3,b*5))
print(" {}{}".format(a*2,b*5))
print(" {}".format(a))

Code snippet

a=str(input("Enter a character for the arrowhead:"))
b=str(input("Enter a character for the arrowbody:"))

print("  {}".format(a))
print(" {}{}".format(a*2,b*5))
print("{}{}".format(a*3,b*5))
print(" {}{}".format(a*2,b*5))
print("  {}".format(a))