diamond structure using asterix in python

Question

i need to print a basic diamond structure using asterix in python. the program should read the number of rows and print an output. eg-if the number of rows is 5 then there should be 3 of the big triangle and 2 of the reversed to give us 5 rows. also this code is cor python 2.7. sample output should be like if width=5

  *
 * *
* * *
 * *
  *

this is what i attempted

width=input("enter the number of rows")

for num in range(1, width-1 , 1):
    print(('*' * num).center(width))

for num in reversed(range(1, width-2, 1)):
    print(('*' * num).center(width))

Answer 1

I wasn't supposed to code that, but I like this stuff. This works for both even and odd numbers:

rows = input("enter the number of rows")

for num in range(1, rows // 2 + 1) + range((rows + 1) // 2, 0, -1):
    print(' '.join('*' * num).center(rows))

Output rows = 5:

  *  
 * * 
* * *
 * * 
  *  

Output rows = 6:

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

EDIT

This is also nice:

for num in xrange(rows):
    print(' '.join('*' * min(num + 1, rows - num)).center(rows))