Challenge #22 - Designer Door Mat
# Enter your code here. Read input from STDIN. Print output to STDOUT nm = input().split() N = int(nm[0]) M = int(nm[1]) c = '.|.' thickness = N //2 upper_pattern = [] for i in range(thickness): string = (c*((2*i)+1)).center(M,'-') upper_pattern.append(string) welcome_message = ['WELCOME'.center(M,'-')] lower_pattern = upper_pattern[::-1] print('\n'.join(upper_pattern + welcome_message + lower_pattern))