[Python] Is passing the same value to a function twice bad practice?

this program prints a pyramid (its from a cs50 problem set). I call the function recursively by decrementing n, but i also wanted to keep track of its initial value in all the loops after the first one, so I made the function take two arguments, both of which are the same value(height) is this bad?

def main():
height = get_h()
pyram(height, height)


def pyram(n, k):
if n > 1:
pyram(n-1, k)
print(" " * (k - n), end = "")
print("#" * n, end = " ")
print("#" * n)


def get_h():
while True:
try:
inp = int(input("height?: "))
except ValueError:
print("no")
if inp > 0:
return inp


if __name__ == "__main__":
main()

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