Making a collatz program automate the boring stuff

Question

I\'m trying to write a Collatz program using the guidelines from a project found at the end of chapter 3 of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. I\'m using python 3.

Answer 1

def collatz(num): 
    if num % 2: 
        return 3 * num + 1
    else:
        return num // 2

while True:
    try:
    number = int(input('Enter a positive integer.'))  
    if number <= 0: 
        continue
    break
except ValueError: 
    continue


while number != 1:
    number = collatz(number)
    print(number)