Given a square matrix, calculate the absolute difference between the sums of its diagonals

Given a square matrix, calculate the absolute difference between the sums of its diagonals.

Question: Return the absolute difference between the sums of the matrix's two diagonals as a single integer.
Method:
  1. We can consider left diagonal: when i = j -> sum (e.g., if we have a 3*3 matrix, we can know the coordinate of left diagonal is (0,0) (1,1) (2,2))

  2. Right diagonal can be consider as when i+j = len(arr)-1 -> sum (e.g., take 3*3 matrix as an example as well, the coordinate of right diagnal is (0,2) (1,1) (2,0), from the example we can get that the sum of x,y is eaqul to len(arr) -1)

def diagonalDifference(arr):
   # Write your code here
   sumLeft = 0
   sumRight = 0
   lenArr = len(arr) - 1

   for i in range(0,len(arr)):
       for j in range(0,len(arr)):
           # calculate the left diagonals
           if i==j:
               sumLeft+=arr[i][j]
           # calculare the right diagonals
           if (i+j) == (len(arr) - 1):
               print("i:{}&j:{}".format(i,j))
               sumRight+=arr[i][j]
               print(sumRight)
   return abs(sumLeft-sumRight)

Challenge from: https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/diagonal-difference/problem?isFullScreen=true 

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