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Looping counter Create an infinite loop that outputs lines of asterisks, with each line containing one more asterisk. Instead of the asterisk, any printable, non-whitespace character can be used. ...

21 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by xrs‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar celtschk‭ · 2022-04-21T18:19:56Z (over 2 years ago)
Looping counter
# Looping counter

Create an infinite loop that outputs lines of asterisks, with each line containing one more asterisk. Instead of the asterisk, any printable, non-whitespace character can be used. However all lines need to use the same character.

The beginning of the output looks like this:
```text
*
**
***
****
*****
******
*******
********
*********
**********
***********
************
```

An ungolfed Python implementation:
```
from itertools import count

for i in count(1):
    print('*'*i)
```