How do I subtract the asterisks in a descending order on my code?

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I want the marble dots to be displayed in the output, and as the number of marbles go down, so do the asterisks. I don't know what command will have the asterisks descend as the while loop runs.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

marbles = 10  #You start out with 10 marbles
marble_dots = "**********" #Pretend these are ten marbles

while (marbles > 0):
   print(marble_dots[:10])

   #This prints out how many marbles you have left.
   # We have to say str(marbles) because marbles is a number
   # and we want to use it in a string (letters and other characters)
   print("You have " + str(marbles) + " marbles left.")

   if (marbles < 4):
       print("Warning: You are running low on marbles!!")

   #This is another way of saying "Subtract 1 from the marbles variable"
   # It is logically the same as writing "marbles = marbles - 1", just shorter
   marbles -= 1

   # Make a newline, so there's an empty line before the next time we run this loop
   print("")
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1 Answers

Nearly there!

Just change the print from hard-coded 10 to the number of marbles remaining

while (marbles > 0):
   
   print(marble_dots[:marbles])

You could also replace it with:

print('*' * marbles)

Which will print * once per marble.

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