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

David Lawson
David Lawson
999 Points
Posted by David Lawson
David Lawson
999 Points

Treehouse bug/glitch in Python course -- Extremely annoying

I've been racking my brain trying to figure out what I've been doing wrong.... I re-wrote the code a million times and eventually gave up.

Then I googled what the right code is and, to my surprise, I got it right.

Still, it's not letting me pass this cursed test to let me go ahead with the course.

even.py 
import random

def even_odd(num):
    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

1 Answer

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Try getting rid of the period at the end of each string (before the closing "). Code challenges are really picky.

even.py 
import random

def even_odd(num):
    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
David Lawson
David Lawson
999 Points
David Lawson
David Lawson
999 Points

It worked - Thanks

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

No problem :)

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Thank you soooo much for the best answer I finally got 1000+ forum points for Python! YAY