I agree. I’m not familiar with Python and figured the '1'*n was just a quirk to convert the int to a string, not an integral part of the process. Kind of a weir

I agree. I’m not familiar with Python and figured the '1'*n was just a quirk to convert the int to a string, not an integral part of the process. Kind of a weird way to repeat a string, tbh, but I guess the concision is appreciated in typical Python applications like computer linguistics or something.