Printing pattern without importing modules

Please help me print the pattern below as it is, if the input entered is 7:

1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 2 2 2 2 2 1
1 2 3 3 3 2 1
1 2 3 4 3 2 1
1 2 3 3 3 2 1
1 2 2 2 2 2 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1

I figured out to find the middle element of the pattern with any input:

rows=int(input("Enter the number of rows:"))
l=[]
for x in range(1,rows+1):
    if x%2!=0:
        l.append(x)
mid_value=len(l)

Please help me complete the above pattern…… Thanks in advance!

Answer

If you use a list-of-lists to store the values, the value for any specific cell can be determined by doing some basic math involving the cell indexes and the number of rows.

An illustration:

def cell_value(i, j, n_rows):
    # The value of any cell is the minimum distance
    # from its own coordinates (i, j) to the "outside" (ie,
    # an i or j less than 0 or equal to n_rows). Imagine an
    # ant in the grid. How many steps would it have to take
    # to escape the grid, using the shortest route?
    return min(
        abs(i - -1),
        abs(i - n_rows),
        abs(j - -1),
        abs(j - n_rows),
    )

N_ROWS = 7

rows = [
    [
        cell_value(i, j, N_ROWS)
        for j in range(N_ROWS)
    ]
    for i in range(N_ROWS)
]

for r in rows:
    print(*r)

Output:

1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 2 2 2 2 2 1
1 2 3 3 3 2 1
1 2 3 4 3 2 1
1 2 3 3 3 2 1
1 2 2 2 2 2 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1