# PrintStars.py
#
# Description: Recursively prints "number" of stars
#              in an hour glass shape.
# 
# Author: Anne Lavergne
# Date: March 2024

def printStars(number):
  """Recursively prints "number" of stars
      in an hour glass shape."""

  # Base Case
  if number == 0 :
    return

  # Recursive Case
  
  # Do some printing!
  print(f"{'*' * number}")

  # Call printStars
  printStars(number-1)

  # Do some more printing!
  print(f"{'*' * number}")
  return 


# ***Main part of the program

# Ask the user for a string
theNumber = int(input("Please, enter the number of stars to print: "))

# Call printStars
printStars(theNumber)