"""Bonus exercise: extend the code to make the game board not square."""

def Board_dim():
    """Asks the user for board dimensions"""
    x = int(input('How many spaces wide should the board be?\n'))
    y = int(input('How high?\n'))
    return [x, y]

def Print_board(x, y):
    """Prints a game board of dimension x by y"""
    board = ['', '|', '']
    i = 1
    j = 1
    while i <= x:
        board[0] += ' ---'
        board[1] += '   |'
        board[2] += ' ---'
        i += 1
    while j < y:
        board.append(board[1])
        board.append(board[2])
        j += 1
    if x == 0 or y == 0:
        print(' ')
    else:
        for elem in board:
            print(elem)

if __name__=="__main__":
    [x, y] = Board_dim()
    Print_board(x, y)