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

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Don't get why we need "elif number %2 == 1:" instead of simple 'else'?

def  collatz(number):
    while number != 1:
        if number %2 == 0:
            number = number/2
            print(number)
        else:
            number = 3*number+1
            print(number)
print('Enter a number')
try:
    number = (int(input()))
except ValueError:
          print("Please enter an INTEGER.")
collatz(number)