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

I had a hard time understanding the logic of this exercise. but I don't know what I did wrong to display the error if we have a negative number.

def collatz(number):
if number % 2 == 0:
    print(number // 2)
    return number // 2

elif number % 2 == 1:
    result = 3 * number + 1
    print(result)
    return result

while True:
try:
    entry = input('enter a positive number: ')
    while entry != 1:
        entry = collatz(int(entry))

    # if we have a negative number
    while entry < 1:
        break

except ValueError:
    print('Error, enter valid number')