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Python Python Basics (2015) Letter Game App Even or Odd Loop

Posted by Adi Strasser
Adi Strasser
3,846 Points

task 1 is no longer passing

in step 3 it shows that step 1 is no longer passing but the random is still imported.

even.py 
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:
    random_num = random.randint(1, 99)
    if even_odd(random_num):
        print('{} is even'.format(random_num))
    else:
        print('{} is odd'.format(random_num)
    start -= 1

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

Due to the way challenges are tested you will often get that error message whenever the code checker crashes when it tries to run your code, even if the error that caused the crash was not added in task 1.

In your case the issue that causes the crash is that you are missing a closing parenthesis after your second print function. If you add that like this:

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:
    random_num = random.randint(1, 99)
    if even_odd(random_num):
        print('{} is even'.format(random_num))
    else:
        print('{} is odd'.format(random_num)) # A closing parenthesis was missing here
    start -= 1

Then your code will pass the challenge.