Developing a function to print a grid in python

Question

I Just started programming with python and I've been tasked in printing a grid in python that looks as follows (image is attached). I'm really stumped on how i would achieve this through defining a function:

Picture of Grid

def display_game(game, grid_size):

The argument (game) is the strings that represent the cells in the game i.e (~), whilst the grid_size represents the size of the grid, i.e 7 would correspond to a 7x7 grid.

I know string splicing, for loops and print statements would be viable, i just don't know how to piece it together.

Any help would be much appreciated, Cheers.

Answer 1

There you go:

def display_game(game, grid_size):
    header_row = ''
    row = ''
    for x in range(1,grid_size+1):
        header_row = header_row + '|' + str(x)
        row = row + '|' + game 
    print(header_row + '|')
    print('-' * (len(row)+1))
    char = 64
    for x in range(1,grid_size+1):
        char = char  +1 
        print(chr(char) + row + '|')


display_game('~', 7)

This should give the following output:

Answer 2

def display_game(game, grid_size):
    c = 65

    # First row
    print(f"  ", end='')
    for j in range(grid_size):
        print(f"| {j+1} ", end='')
    print("| ")
    print((7*4+4)*"-")

    # Other rows
    for i in range(grid_size):
        print(f"{chr(c+i)} ", end='')
        for j in range(grid_size):
            print(f"| {game} ", end='')
        print("| ")
        print((7*4+4)*"-")


display_game('~', 7)

  | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 
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A | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 
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B | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 
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C | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 
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D | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 
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E | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 
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F | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 
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G | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ~ | 
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