How To Print Character During Parameter Passing

Question

I'm trying to make a board that looks like this:

x ! x ! x

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

x ! x ! x

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

x ! x ! x

This is what I have so far:

def print_tic_tac_toe(horiz_char, vert_char):
    print(vert_char*2)
    print(horiz_char*5)
    return

print_tic_tac_toe('~', '!')

I can't figure out how to get the 'x' to print between the vertical characters. How should I go about this? Is a newline character involved?

Do you would like to do something like this? [square similar](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36903763/combine-same-function-with-different-parameters-python) — Milor123, May 01 '16 at 15:46

user2390182 · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-01T15:49:09.117

Use join to use the vert_char to join a list of xs. Sth. like so:

def print_tic_tac_toe(horiz_char, vert_char):
    print(vert_char.join(['x']*3))
    print(horiz_char*5)
    print(vert_char.join(['x']*3))
    print(horiz_char*5)
    print(vert_char.join(['x']*3))

print_tic_tac_toe('~', '!')

x!x!x
~~~~~
x!x!x
~~~~~
x!x!x

or shorter:

def print_tic_tac_toe(horiz_char, vert_char):
    print(('\n'+(horiz_char*5)+'\n').join(vert_char.join(['x']*3) for _ in range(3)))

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 01 '16 at 15:44

You can try like this:

def print_tic_tac_toe(horiz_char = '', vert_char = ''):
    print(('X '+vert_char)*2+'X')
    if horiz_char != '':
        print(horiz_char*5)
    return

print_tic_tac_toe('~ ', '! ')
print_tic_tac_toe('~ ', '! ')
print_tic_tac_toe('', '! ')

Output:

X ! X ! X
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 
X ! X ! X
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 
X ! X ! X

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 20 '21 at 06:30

def print_tic_tac_toe(horiz_char, vert_char):
    print('x %s x %s x' %(vert_char, vert_char))
    print('%s %s %s %s %s' %(horiz_char, horiz_char, horiz_char, horiz_char, horiz_char))
    print('x %s x %s x' %(vert_char, vert_char))
    print('%s %s %s %s %s' %(horiz_char, horiz_char, horiz_char, horiz_char, horiz_char))
    print('x %s x %s x' %(vert_char, vert_char))
   

print_tic_tac_toe('~', '!')

How To Print Character During Parameter Passing

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