Creating a diamond pattern using loops

Question

I am trying to write a program that reads an integer and displays, using asterisks, a filled diamond of the given side length. For Example, if the side length is 4, the prog

Answer 1

How about this:

n = 5
stars = [('*' + '**'*i).center(2*n + 1) for i in range(n)]

print('\n'.join(stars + stars[::-1][1:]))

The output:

     *     
    ***    
   *****   
  *******  
 ********* 
  *******  
   *****   
    ***    
     *    

This is similar to some of the answers above, but I find the syntax to be more simple and readable.