"Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing." What??? - Even or Odd Loop

Question

Here's my code for the Even or Odd loop:
```python
import random
start = 5
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 start != 0:
    num = random.randint(1, 99)
    if even_odd(num) == 0:
        print("{} is even").format(num)
    else:
        print("{} is odd").format(num)
start -= 1
```
Whenever I check the code I keep on getting this error message:
Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing.
I don't get it because Task 1 just asks you to import the random library. This is really frustrating....

andren · Accepted Answer

The message about Task 1 no longer passing is indeed misleading, it is most likely caused by the fact that the way your code is written right now the program will crash, but the cause of that is not the code you added in stage 1.
There are two decently big issues with your code.
python
          print("{} is even").format(num)

format is a method that belongs to strings, it needs to be used directly on the string, the way this code is written you are trying to call format on the print method rather than the string itself.
This is the correct way to format the string:
python
          print("{} is even".format(num))

That is the first issue that would cause your program to crash, the same issue of course also applies to the other print statement but I won't cover that separately.
The second issue is the fact that you loop never ends, the statement that decreases the start variable has the same indentation as the while statement which means that it is not within the loop.

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"Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing." What??? - Even or Odd Loop

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