[Tutor] Find out if a number is even or not

[Riumu Kuraku]

Hehe, yeah, it was a roughy, I've only been doing this for one week myself.

the first assignment of 0 is just me being paranoid about non-assigned
variables,
and I've still got to comprehend 'if not' statements. 

Regards,

Liam Clarke


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:56:09 -0400, Roger Merchberger
<zmerch at 30below.com> wrote:
> Rumor has it that Riumu Kuraku may have mentioned these words:
> >[snip]
> >Be cool and write your own function for this...
> >
> >def OddorEven(x):
> >a=0
> >a=x % 2
> >if a ==0:
> >     return "Even"
> >else:
> >     eturn "Odd"
> 
> Just to let you know:
> 
> The first assignment of 0 to a seems superfluous as you're reassigning it
> in the very next statement; and just to show others a different way of
> coding this...
> 
> def OddorEven(x):
>    a=x % 2
>    if a:
>      return "Odd"
>    else:
>      return "Even"
> 
> [[ Oh, and your indentation was a schootch off... ;-) ]]
> 
> HTH,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
> 
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