Practice Creating and Using Functions in Python - task two

The task asks Create a function that determines if a specific value is odd. Specifically:

• Create a function. This is done by include the keywork def in front of a variable and including a parameter list in parens, followed by a colon

def function_name(parameters):

• Name the function is_odd

def is_odd(parameters):

• have it declare a single parameter. This can be any variable name, let's use value

def is_odd(value):

• return True if the value is not divisible by 2. The Python way to check if a value is even is to use the modulo operator % with 2. A zero result is even, a one result is odd

is_odd_value = False
if value %2 == 1:
    is_odd_value = True

• Return result

    return is_odd_value

Time to simplify the code

Instead of checking a Boolean (true/false) statement to set a Boolean value, just use the Boolean value directly

    is_odd_value = value %2 == 1
    return is_odd_value

But since value % 2 returns either a 0 or a 1, and 0 is equivalent to False and 1 is equivalent to True you can use the results of the modulo directly to get an even result.

    # adding not and changing 0 to 1
    is_odd_value = not value %2 == 0
    # or, simply
    is_odd_value = not value %2

Returning the result:

    # Return results
    return is_odd_value
    # or simply
    return not value % 2

Post back if you need more help. Good luck!!