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

Gavin Broussard
Gavin Broussard
1,844 Points
Posted by Gavin Broussard
Gavin Broussard
1,844 Points

This code words

I'm not sure what is causing the error! I checked the preview and it works fine!

even.py 
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:
    num0 = random.randint(1,99)
    if even_odd(num0):
        print("{} is even!".format(num0))
    else:
        print("{} is odd!".format(num0))
    start -= 1

1 Answer

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

The challenge is very picky about what you print out, it has to match the example text to the letter. The example text provided in the instructions does not include an exclamation mark. So if you remove the exclamation mark in your strings like this:

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:
    num0 = random.randint(1,99)
    if even_odd(num0):
        print("{} is even".format(num0))
    else:
        print("{} is odd".format(num0))
    start -= 1

Then your code will pass.