Getting "Wrong number of prints," Don't understand what is wrong

I am not sure that I found the problem, however, by removing the "is True" parts from the while loop and if statement I got the code to pass. In my text editor with the code as given, nothing is printing out.

import random

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

start = 5

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

EDIT: I checked a bit more, the "is True" in the while loop keeps anything from printing, I'm not sure why though

Hi there! Charlie Gallentine is correct. It is the is True part that is keeping anything from printing. The variable start is never equal to True. Here we get into the difference of "truthy" versus True. If you are checking for True then the value must explicitly be set to True.

When we say while start: we say "do this while the value is truthy". A number that is not 0 will be considered "truthy",. When we decrement the value of start so that it eventually reaches 0 then that will cause while start: to evaluate as false and the loop will end.

When you start the while loop with while start is True:, it will evaluate to false and never run the loop as start was never set to True.

Hope this explanation helps!

Thank you both for your help!! It works now, and I appreciate the explanations as well.