Making a Box

Challenge Difficulty: Medium | Estimated completion time: ~15 minutes

Create a function that creates a box based on dimension n.

Examples

makeBox(5) ➞ [
  "#####",
  "#   #",
  "#   #",
  "#   #",
  "#####"
] 5x5 box
 
makeBox(3) ➞ [
  "###",
  "# #",
  "###"
] 3x3 box
 
makeBox(2) ➞ [
  "##",
  "##"
] 2x2 box
 
makeBox(1) ➞ [
  "#"
] 1x1 box

Solution

Python

def make_box(dimension: int) -> list[str]: """Create a box with given dimension. Args: dimension: Size of the box Returns: List of strings representing the box """ if dimension == 1: return ["#"] result = [] result.append("#" * dimension) for _ in range(dimension - 2): result.append("#" + " " * (dimension - 2) + "#") result.append("#" * dimension) return result if __name__ == "__main__": print(make_box(5)) print(make_box(3)) print(make_box(2)) print(make_box(1))

Output