How do you make the bars for the sides? Thanks for providing this exercise. Sent from my iPhone > On May 18, 2014, at 2:45 PM, Richard Dinger <rrdinger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Congratulations JDog, the first complete program on the list. > > And it works--well done! > > Richard > > > -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Turner Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 > 1:21 PM To: pythonvis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pythonvis] My box drawing > program, finally! > This is very simple and rudimentary, but I had fun writing it. > > JDog > > """ This program will draw a box according to width and height specs > provided by the user""" > > print "I will now draw a box for you, with pretty plus signs for the > corners, " > print "dashes for the top and bottom, and bars for the sides." > print > width = input("How wide would you like the box to be?") > print > height = input("How high would you like the box to be?") > corner = "+" > dashes = width*"-" > indent = " "*3 > bar = "|" > spaces = " "*width > print > top = bottom = indent+corner+dashes+corner > print top sides = indent+bar+spaces+bar > count = height > while count >= 1: > print sides > count = count-1 > print bottom > print > print "OK, here is your", width, "by", height, "box." > print "Thank you for doing business with the marvelous JDog." > >