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Have tested the code in the workshop and it runs continuously becasue start is never falsey. This keeps crashing the challenge so it can't be completed. I believe I'm not understanding the part where it says to decrement start by 1. This would make the while statement run continuously, would it not?

even.py

import random

start = 4

def even_odd(num):
    # If % 2 is 0, the number is even.
    # Since 0 is falsey, we have to invert it with not.
    return not num % 2

while even_odd(start) is True:
    number = random.randint(1,99)
    if even_odd(number) is True:
        print ("{} is even.".format(number))
    else:
        print ("{} is odd.".format(number))

Answer 1 · 2017-10-26T21:39:27Z

October 26, 2017 9:39pm

The challenge says to set start to 5, then run the while loop until it's falsey, or equal to zero. You're using the even_odd function on start, which is not what it asks to do in this one. Your while should look like this:

while start:

Simple as that. The reason we don't write while start is true is that is checks for equality, and start does not equal True, but it's Truthy, which I know can be confusing, haha. Decrementing start by 1 each time the loop runs will eventually make start = 0, at which point the loop will break. You can do this by adding start = start - 1 or start -= 1. Either one works. Last thing- the strings that you print shouldn't contain periods! Hope this helps,

AJ

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