Question

Hi i am having difficulty in doing even and odd in lecture (1) looks weird i am getting a syntax error all the time. Please help.

Answer 1

>>> x = 15
>>> if (x/2)*2 ==x:
print "even"

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Answer 2

Havent taken a look at it yet, but it looks like you are missing a bunch of variables. What is "even"?
Is that all of your source code?

Answer 3

it didn't give me space to write the else code. It stopped at that level.

Answer 4

write your code on a text document and attach it :)

Answer 5

I am doing some trials but not as in lecture (1) don't know why.

Answer 6

It is invalid syntax because your "wording" did not make sense to python-
This statement- [if (x/2)*2 ==x:] is fine, but [if (x/2)*2 =x:] is not because "=" assigns a value and does not "equate"

Answer 7

ok but why the result was 15 an even number ?

Answer 8

because 15/2 = 7.5
and 7.5*2 = 15

Answer 9

not the best way to test for even/odd number. On the other hand "%" works really well (which you did )

Answer 10

yes...Thanks a lot. Not used yet to " " and ( ) and this is giving me hard times but its fun. Thanks a lot again for helping me.

Answer 11

You are welcome :) I apologize for the improper use of tokens ( " ", [ ] ), but I am glad I was able to help.