3 ways to find if a number is Odd/Even in Python

Solution #1

def find(num):
    # code logic here
    if num%2 == 0:
        numtype="even"
    else:
        numtype = "odd"
    return numtype

num = int(input('Enter the number: '))  # 1. take your input
numtype = find(num)                     # 2. call the find function
print('Given number is',numtype).       # 3. print if the number is even or odd

Output:

coder# python challenge07.py 
Enter the number: 5
Given number is odd
coder# python challenge07.py 
Enter the number: 8
Given number is even

Explanation:-

1. input() function is used to take user input
2. find() function is called to to check if a number is off/even. This function returns numtype as odd/even
3. At last, print if the given number is odd/even

Solution #2

Avoid usage of else block by assigning a default value (odd) to numtype

def find(num):
    # code logic here
    numtype = "odd"
    if num%2 == 0:
        numtype="even"
    return numtype

num = int(input('Enter the number: '))      # take your input
numtype = find(num)                         # call the find function
print('Given number is',numtype)            # print if the number is even or odd

Output:

coder# python challenge07.py 
Enter the number: 5
Given number is odd
coder# python challenge07.py 
Enter the number: 8
Given number is even

Solution #3

directly return numtype

def find(num):
    # code logic here
    if num%2 == 0:
        return "even"
    return "odd"

num = int(input('Enter the number: '))      # take your input
numtype = find(num)                         # call the find function
print('Given number is',numtype)            # print if the number is even or odd

Output:

coder# python challenge07.py 
Enter the number: 5
Given number is odd
coder# python challenge07.py 
Enter the number: 8
Given number is even

Bonus

numtype = num%2 == 0 and "even" or "odd"

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Comments

[Mr.13]

Yeah! I was looking for this in post when he wrote 3 ways 🤣.

Thanks for the comment.

[Tim West]

We can get even more clever:

def is_odd_or_even(n):
    return "odd" if n&1 else "even"

The bitwise-and operator & behavior is trivia, but it's useful because the bitwise operators tend to be consistent across many programming languages.