Print a triangular pattern of asterisks

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Both patterns C and D require leading spaces and you are not printing any spaces, just stars.

Here is alternative code that prints the required leading spaces:

print ("Pattern C")
for e in range (11,0,-1):
    print((11-e) * ' ' + e * '*')

print ('')
print ("Pattern D")
for g in range (11,0,-1):
    print(g * ' ' + (11-g) * '*')

Here is the output:

Pattern C
***********
 **********
  *********
   ********
    *******
     ******
      *****
       ****
        ***
         **
          *

Pattern D

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

In more detail, consider this line:

print((11-e) * ' ' + e * '*')

It prints (11-e) spaces followed by e stars. This provides the leading spaces needed to make the patterns.

If your teacher wants nested loops, then you may need to convert print((11-e) * ' ' + e * '*') into loops printing each space, one at a time, followed by each star, one at a time.

Pattern C via nested loops

If you followed the hints I gave about nested loops, you would have arrived at a solution for Pattern C like the following:

print ("Pattern C")
for e in range (11,0,-1):
    #print((11-e) * ' ' + e * '*')
    for d in range (11-e):
        print (' ', end = '')
    for d in range (e):
        print ('*', end = '')
    print()

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